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Posted: Sunday, 05 July 2009 6:54PM
Four dead, 22 wounded in bloody six hours
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CHICAGO (STNG) -- Four people were killed and at least 22 others, including an 8-year-old boy, were wounded in shootings and stabbings during a bloody six hours late Saturday into early Sunday.
About 9:55 p.m. Saturday, a 26-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in the armpit near East 71st Street and South Vernon Avenue and was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in critical condition. A suspect is in custody, police said.
About 11:45 p.m. Saturday, a 19-year-old was shot in the buttocks at 6549 N. Lakewood Ave. and was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston in an unidentified condition, police said.
Three minutes later, a man was fatally stabbed in the chest -- reportedly by his sister -- at his home at 4351 S. Champlain Ave. Andre Armstrong, 35, was pronounced dead at 12:30 a.m. Sunday at Stroger Hospital, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
At 11:49 p.m., four males were shot -- including an 8-year-old boy -- near West 58th Street and South Union Avenue. Police said a 26-year-old man was fatally shot; an 8-year-old boy was shot in the arm and taken to University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital in an unidentified condition; a 30-year-old man was shot in the abdomen; and a 34-year-old man was shot in the leg, police said.
Marchello Henderson, 26, of 10446 S. Wabash Ave., was pronounced dead at 12:30 a.m. Sunday at Stroger Hospital, according to the medical examiner’s office, which said Henderson was shot multiple times.
The violent attacks continued early Sunday.
At 12:29 a.m. Sunday, a man walked into Roseland Community Hospital and was treated for a gunshot wound to the abdomen, police said. It was not immediately clear where the shooting occurred, but Calumet District police prepared the report on the Far South Side.
About 12:50 a.m. Sunday, a 40-year-old man was shot three times -- twice in the groin and once in the leg -- during a possibly domestic-related incident at 8127 S. Coles Ave., police said.
At 12:57 a.m. Sunday, a 19-year-old man walked into South Shore Hospital and was treated for a gunshot wound to the hip, according to police. An address of the shooting was not immediately available.
At 1:12 a.m. Sunday, four males and a female were shot at 2852 W. Polk St. Three of the victims were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and two were taken to Stroger Hospital, police said.
Two men died after they were shot about 1:45 a.m. Sunday near East 63rd Street and East Maryland Avenue. Loweton Harmon, 26, of 9131 S. Parnell Ave., and Leundra Phillip, 22, of 10 Penn Oaks Dr. in North Liberty, Iowa, were both pronounced dead at 3 a.m. Sunday at University of Chicago Hospitals, according to the medical examiner’s office.
About 2:25 a.m., a man in his 30s was stabbed in the abdomen area during a fight in the 4300 block of West Shakespeare Avenue, police News Affairs Officer Michael Fitzpatrick said. The man was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in an unidentified condition.
A man in his 20s was critically wounded in a drive-by shooting in the 4700 block of West Jackson Boulevard about 2:40 a.m. Sunday. The man was taken to Mount Sinai in critical condition, Fitzpatrick said.
A police-involved shooting occurred at 2:45 a.m. near a well-known bar at East 75th Street and South Michigan Avenue. Police News Affairs Officer Robert Perez said police found four men shot on the scene and someone opened fire at the officers. No officers were injured.
Two men were taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition with gunshot wounds to the stomach, legs and torso. A third man was taken to St. Bernard Hospital in good condition with a gunshot wound to the foot. The last man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with a gunshot wound to the torso, according to Perez, who said one person is in custody and a weapon was recovered.
At 2:54 a.m., a 21-year-old man was shot in the neck at 5958 S. Honore St. The man was taken to Christ Medical Center in an unidentified condition, police said.
At 3:42 a.m., two males were shot at 735 N. Harding Ave. One suffered a gunshot wound to the foot and was taken to an unidentified hospital and the second person later showed up at Stroger Hospital in an unidentified condition, according to police.
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