Three men were killed and at least 28 other people were wounded in shootings across the city between Friday evening and Sunday night, according to Chicago Police.
The most recent fatal shooting happened about 11:45 p.m. Sunday in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side. Officers arrived in the 8100 block of South Ellis and found 45-year-old Darren Smith unresponsive inside a home, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. Smith lived on the same block as the shooting. Additional information was not available from police early Monday.
Just after 3 a.m. Sunday, a man was shot to death in a Parkway Gardens neighborhood restaurant on the South Side. Officers responding to a call of shots fired found the 23-year-old unresponsive inside the fast-food restaurant in the 6300 block of South King Drive, police said. He was shot in the face and pronounced dead at the scene at 3:15 a.m., authorities said. The medical examiner’s office has not released his name. Two other men were wounded in the shooting and took themselves to St. Bernard Hospital. The men, ages 22 and 24, were each shot once in the lower body and their conditions were stabilized.
About an hour earlier, a 22-year-old man was gunned down in the South Side Englewood neighborhood. Deangelo Martin was standing with a group of people about 2 a.m. in the 7300 block of South Yale when gunfire erupted and he was shot multiple times in the neck. A friend took Martin to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 2:52 a.m., authorities said.
The weekend’s most recent non-fatal shooting happened about 10:40 p.m. Sunday in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side. Three men were sitting in a parked vehicle in the 3400 block of West Augusta when a male walked up and fired shots at them, police said. One man, believed to be in his 20s, was shot on the right side of his neck and taken in critical condition to Illinois Masonic Medical Center. A 40-year-old man was shot in the back and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, while a 31-year-old man was shot in the neck and taken to Stroger Hospital. Both of their conditions were stabilized.
At least 23 other people were wounded in shootings between 6 p.m. Friday and 9 p.m. Sunday, police said.
