Posted on July 13, 2020

64 Shot, 13 Fatally, in Chicago This Weekend

Chicago Sun-Times, July 12, 2020

Sixty-four people were shot, 13 of them fatally, across Chicago over the weekend.

Fifteen-year-old Terrance Malden, who was gunned down about 4:50 p.m. Friday in Jeffery Manor on the South Side, was the weekend’s first victim. Five other teenagers were wounded in separate shootings between then and Monday morning.

The alarming numbers marked a dip from the gun violence that befell the city over the Fourth of July weekend, when 79 people were shot, 15 fatally. Eleven of those victims were minors, and two of the children died from their injuries.

In the same weekend last year, nine people were killed and 32 more were wounded.

Monday morning

  • The most recent fatal attack left a man dead early Monday in Park Manor on the South Side.

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  • Less than an hour before that, a 26-year-old man was shot and killed in Lawndale on the West Side.

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Sunday

  • Late Sunday night, a man was shot to death and two teenagers were wounded at a gas station in West Englewood on the South Side.

They were in a vehicle at a gas station at 11:28 p.m. in the 7000 block of South Damen Avenue when a silver SUV pulled up and someone inside started shooting, according to police. {snip}

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  • Another attack earlier that night left a man dead and three people wounded in Englewood.

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  • Early Sunday morning, a 26-year-old man was shot dead in the same neighborhood.

About 5:15 a.m., Luther D. Teagues was standing in the 2100 block of West 71st Street when he heard shots and felt pain, authorities said. He was struck multiple times and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

  • Hours before that, a man was killed and two others were critically wounded in a shooting in Humboldt Park on the West Side.

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Saturday

  • A 33-year-old woman was killed and two others were injured Saturday night in Avalon Park on the South Side.

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  • A little over an hour earlier, a 33-year-old man was shot to death in Englewood on the South Side.

Frank Ellis was outside a home about 8:15 p.m. in the 6900 block of South Elizabeth Street when a vehicle pulled up in front of him, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Several people got out and opened fire, striking him in the back. {snip}

  • Saturday morning, a man was killed and another was wounded in Austin on the West Side.

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  • Minutes before, a man was fatally shot in West Town.

The man, 41, was found with a gunshot wound to the chest about 1:32 a.m. in the 300 block of North Ashland Avenue, police said. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

  • Another man was found with a fatal gunshot wound about half an hour earlier in Park Manor on the South Side.

Officers responding to ShotSpotter reports of gunfire at 1:04 a.m. found the 41-year-old man in an alley in the 7000 block of South King Drive, according to police. He was shot in the back and chest and pronounced dead at the scene.

Friday

  • A man was shot to death Friday evening in McKinley Park on the South Side.

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Nonfatal shootings

Three other teenagers were among those wounded over the weekend.

  • A man and a 15-year-old girl were shot late Sunday night in West Garfield Park on the West Side.

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  • A 14-year-old boy was shot early Sunday in Marquette Park on the Southwest Side.

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  • On Friday evening, a 17-year-old boy was shot in West Garfield Park.

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At least 37 other people were injured by gun violence between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday.