CHICAGO - Four people have been killed and at least 15 other people wounded -- including a 12-year-old boy left in critical condition -- in shootings around the city since Friday night.
On the South Side, a 17-year-old was shot to death Friday night in the Chatham neighborhood. Clifton Barney was found with a gunshot wound to the chest in the in the 7700 block of South Langley Avenue at 7:24 p.m., police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
On the West Side, Ramar Bonner, 40, was found shot to death in the Austin neighborhood Friday night. About 8:05 p.m. police were called to the 200 block of North Mayfield for a report of a man shot. When they arrived they found the man dead with a gunshot wound to the back of his head. Police said an unknown gunman fled the area on foot after the shooting.Also on the West Side, 27-year-old Keith Johnson was shot in the head during an argument with a man on the sidewalk in the 4800 block of West Iowa Street at 3:50 a.m. Saturday, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
Saturday night about 9:15 p.m., a shooter or shooters opened fire at a group of people at Ryan Harris Memorial Park, in the 6800 block of South Lowe Street in the Englewood neighborhood. Three people were wounded, one fatally, in this shooting. Shaneda Lawrence, 30, was killed with a gunshot to the head. Lawrence, of the 9600 block of South Peoria Street, was pronounced dead at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County at 12:46 a.m. The attack also left a woman in her 20s with a gunshot wound to the wrist, and a 24-year-old man shot in the back. Both were in “stable” condition at area hospitals.
Other non-fatal shootings this weekend include a 50-year-old man who was shot in the face about 2:10 a.m. Sunday in the 300 block of South Cicero Avenue in the Austin neighborhood, police said. He was hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital.
A 42-year-old man and 57-year-old woman were shot while sitting in a vehicle when someone walked up to them and started shooting on the Far South Side about 2:20 a.m. on Sunday in the 12000 block of South Lafayette Avenue. The man suffered a graze wound to his wrist and later refused medical treatment. The woman was shot in the lower right leg and taken in “stable” condition to Roseland Hospital, police said.
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