Ten people were wounded in shootings across Chicago Monday.
A 39-year-old man was shot about 8 p.m. in Seward Park on the Near North Side. He was at the park in the 300 block of West Elm Street when he was shot in the lower leg. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition.A 30-year-old man was shot during an attempted carjacking while leaving a restaurant in North Lawndale on the West Side. Someone in a black Nissan truck fired shots about 3:30 a.m. in the 3400 block of West Roosevelt Road, police said. The man was grazed in the face and transported to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition. Two men in the truck stole a purse at gunpoint from a woman sitting in the man’s car. The men also tried to steal the car but fled in the truck.About a mile away, two men were wounded in a shooting Monday afternoon. A man, 20, was shot in the head and a 23-year-old man was grazed in the hand and lower body about 5:15 p.m., police said. They were standing in the 1200 block of South Keeler Avenue when someone started shooting. The 20-year-old man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition. The other man was taken to the same hospital in good condition.A 30-year-old man was shot and critically wounded about an hour and a half earlier in Calumet Heights on the South Side. He was shot in the neck and lower body while walking in the 1600 block of East 93rd Street about 3:40 p.m., police said. He was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center.About 10 minutes earlier, a 40-year-old man was shot in the head while in his car in Austin on the West Side. He was in the 5900 block of West Madison Street when someone in another car shot at him around 3:30 p.m., police said. The man was taken to Loyola Hospital in critical condition.
At least four other people were injured by gunfire Monday in Chicago. No arrests were reported in any of the shootings.
Over the weekend, nine people were killed and 54 others were wounded by gunfire across the city, marking one of the most violent weekends of the year.
