A woman and two men were killed this evening in a shooting near a restaurant and bakery in the Chatham neighborhood on the city's South Side.
The shooting happened about 5 p.m. on the 8700 block of South King Drive.
A man and a woman died at the scene. Another man was wounded and taken in serious-to-critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died later.
As of 6 p.m., no one was in custody for the shooting and there was no vehicle description available.
The three victims, all thought to be in their 20s, were sitting in a car in a parking lot outside a Church's Chicken and a bakery.
Two or three of them apparently had just returned to the car from the bakery when a gunman emerged from a nearby alley on foot and shot up the vehicle.
They said the gunman fled the scene on foot, but may have had a getaway vehicle nearby.
As police investigated the scene, apparent relatives of the victims arrived and showed their grief.
Two women were seen collapsing into to tears outside a fish shop half a block away.
"Would you relax if one of your children just got murdered?" one of the women screamed as some of the officers tried to console her.
The same woman could be heard saying that today was the birthday of one the victims, but it was not clear who. She also said her son was only 21.
"Oh, it hurts so bad!" she sobbed into the shoulder of a woman who consoled her. "It hurts so deep. I don't know what I'm going to do."
The scene became even more tense when a man arrived and appeared to burst into tears upon hearing the news.
Later, one man attempted to punch another man on the scene, prompting officers to wrestle one to ground and lead him away in handcuffs, while other relatives pleaded with the men to stop.
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