The boy and some friends were entering Golden Fish & Chicken shortly before 7 p.m. when a red SUV pulled up and shots were fired, according to Officer Kevin Quaid, a police spokesman. The boy suffered a graze wound to his leg and was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition, police said. “I’m just thanking God,” the boy’s older brother, Johnny Lindsey, told WGN-TV. “It could have been worse. … He’s OK. I’m OK.” The road rage shooting happened about seven hours later, shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday, police said. A 23-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man were in a red car on Lake Shore Drive near Michigan Avenue when another vehicle followed them and someone inside it fired shots, police said.
Members of the Chicago Police Department inspect a car that was involved in a shooting on the 600 block of South Jefferson Street on May 19 in Chicago.
The man drove to Jefferson and Harrison streets in the South Loop, where the couple called 911, police said. The man was hit in the buttocks and the woman was hit in the head, police said. Both were taken to Stroger Hospital, where the man was listed in good condition and the woman in serious condition. Police said the shooting appeared to stem from a road rage incident but had no details. The gun violence Wednesday and early Thursday also included two fatal shootings, both in the Austin neighborhood. One of them occurred on West Augusta Boulevard in the Austin neighborhood around 5:30 p.m. when someone in a car opened fire at two men, said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a police spokesman.
A 22-year-old man was hit in the wrist and the chest and was taken to Loyola University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, Sweeney said. A 21-year-old man also was wounded and went to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where he was in good condition with a gunshot wound to his finger and arm, Sweeney said. In the same neighborhood, a 28-year-old man was found dead in a vacant lot on West Walton Street at 9:35 a.m., said Officer Laura Amezaga, a police spokeswoman. The man suffered a single gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, Amezaga said. Police News Affairs was releasing no further information about the killing.
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