19 Shot Across Chicago in First 12 Hours of Halloween Weekend

A 14-year-old boy was the latest homicide victim early Saturday

Six people were killed during a 12-hour rash of violence that saw 19 people shot across the city to start Halloween weekend.

A 14-year-old boy was the latest homicide victim early Saturday. At 1:23 a.m., DeMarco Webster Jr. was on the street in the 500 block of South Central in the West Side Austin neighborhood when someone in a dark-colored car shot him in the torso, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Webster, who lived in the 700 block of South Kedzie, died after being taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.

At 12:04 a.m. in the South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood, someone walked up to 25-year-old Martell Turner as he sat in a vehicle in the 1200 block of West 79th Street and shot him in the chest and abdomen, authorities said. Turner was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died. He lived in the 7900 block of South Throop.

Five minutes before that, officers responding to a call of a person shot found a 30-year-old man near 78th Street and South Shore Drive with a gunshot wound to the head, police said. He died at Christ Medical Center. Authorities have not released his name.

The weekend’s first killings happened about 10:20 p.m. Friday at a Back of the Yards gas station. Chiquita Ford and Brian Fields, both 30, were sitting in a vehicle at the station in the 1900 block of West Garfield when a gunman walked up and fired at them, hitting the woman in the side and the man in the chest, authorities said. They were dead at the scene. Ford lived in suburban Westchester; Fields was from the 7200 block of South Wolcott.

The latest nonfatal shooting happened about 4:45 a.m. Saturday in the North Austin neighborhood on the West Side, where someone in a silver SUV shot a 36-year-old man in the leg on a sidewalk in the 5000 block of West Concord, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.

At least 12 more people were wounded in other shootings between 4:45 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday.

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