Shootings in Chicago March 23- 24.2013

Man shot in McKinley Park

A man in his 30s was shot in the leg Saturday night in the McKinley Park neighborhood on the South Side.
Someone shot the man at 9:10 p.m. in the 3300 block of South Ashland Avenue

30 year old man shot in Marquette Park

A 30 year-old man was shot in the head Sunday morning after a confrontation over a car that was double-parked.
The shooting happened about 3:30 a.m. in the 7100 block of South Maplewood Avenue in the Marquette Park neighborhood.
Police said the 30-year-old man was shot in the head after an argument, ran west and fell in an alley where an ambulance picked him up and took him to Advocate Christ Medical Center. He was "walking, talking, breathing, living. According to a witness, the confrontation started when a car with two men inside tried to slide past the parked car on Maplewood Avenue. The eventual victim was on the sidewalk next to the parked car.
The parked car was partially blocking the street, the witness said, but there was enough room for the other car to get by.
According to the witness, a woman in the parked car exchanged words with the other car's driver, and the man who eventually was shot told the two men, "Go ahead on now, we're cool, we not on that."
The second car's driver moved past the parked car, stopped at the corner of 72nd and Maplewood, about 50 yards south. One of the two men got out of the vehicle, walked up close to the eventual victim, lifted a handgun and said "Talk that (expletive) now" before firing a single shot

27-year-old woman shot in the South Shore

The woman was shot in the chest and leg in the 7500 block of South Coles Avenue about 3:37 a.m.
She'd been seated inside her vehicle in front of a residence there when a blue car pulled up and someone inside shot her multiple times.
The woman was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where her condition had stabilized

35 year old man shot in Belmont Central

In the Belmont Central neighborhood on the Northwest Side, in the 2800 block of North Melvina Avenue, a 35-year-old man was shot in the leg about 1:35 a.m.

14-year-old boy shot in McKinley Park

14-year-old boy was shot this afternoon in the McKinley Park neighborhood.
Someone shot the teen in the buttocks at 12:58 p.m. near 37th Street and South Hamilton Avenue on the South Side.  . The victim was transported in good condition to Mt. Sinai Hospital.