CHICAGO (STNG) - A South Side man has been charged early Friday for a reported gang-related shooting outside Dunbar Vocational Career Academy last week that left five teenage boys wounded.
Georgio Dukes, 18, of the 6100 block of South Kimbark Avenue, was charged with five counts of felony aggravated battery with a firearm, police said. Dukes is scheduled to appear for a bond hearing later Friday at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse at 2600 S. California Ave.
Dukes was arrested at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 6100 block of South
Kimbark Avenue, police said.
Witnesses identified Dukes as an offender in the Jan. 9 shooting outside Dunbar High, 3000 S. King Dr., police said.
An EMS Plan 1, which automatically sends five ambulances to the scene, was called about 8 p.m. on the campus of Dunbar High after multiple shots were fired as students were leaving a basketball game, according to a Prairie District police sergeant.
Five teenage boys were taken to area hospitals. Three teens hospitalized in serious to critical condition and two others were in fair condition, a Chicago Fire Department spokesperson said after the shooting. The injured were taken to University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, and John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
Police said early Friday all the victims were treated with non-life-threatening injuries.
A sixth victim, a female trampled in the melee, was taken to Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in good condition.
All the wounded were teenagers found outside of the school, officials said.
Chicago Public Schools boys basketball coordinator Cyrus McGinnis said no players were injured. The shooting happened outside and everyone ran back into the gym to avoid injury, he said.
A sophomore from Dunbar was injured, as were two freshmen and a senior from Hirsch High School, Chicago Public Schools spokeswoman Anitra Schulte said. She had no information on the girl who was injured.
Seven ambulances and 200 police responded, and King Drive was blocked off for a three-block search.
Shell casings have been recovered and video surveillance tapes are being reviewed.
Wentworth Area detectives are investigating
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