3 dead, 7 wounded in shootings over 5 hours Friday
A 64-year-old woman fatally shot in the head near a Rogers Park CTA train station was an unintended target of a drive-by shooting and one of three people killed in gun violence on Friday, police said.
In other attacks, at least seven people were wounded over 2 1/2 hours Friday from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., including a 15-year-old boy shot about half an hour before and a mile away from the fatal Rogers Park drive-by, police said.
Earlier, police said the boy was 13.
The woman, Cynthia Trevillion, was walking in the 6900 block of North Glenwood Avenue toward the Morse “L” stop about 6:30 p.m. when she was hit, said Chicago police Chief of Patrol Fred Waller, who gave a statement Friday night to media at the intersection of West Morse and North Glenwood avenues.
Trevillion was rushed to Presence St. Francis Hospital in Evanston in critical condition, police said. She later died, according to Officer Michelle Tannehill, a spokeswoman for Chicago police.
In a separate shooting about 30 minutes earlier, a 15-year-old boy was shot in an alley after an altercation, police said. Waller said the boy was in surgery but had no further information about the attack.
It happened in the West Rogers Park neighborhood, about a mile west of the Glenwood Avenue scene, police said. The boy was walking in the 7100 block of North Ridge Avenue when someone shot him in the lower back. He was taken to Presence St. Francis in critical condition, police said. Police earlier said the shooting happened in the 2100 block of West Touhy Avenue.
Police were also investigating two fatal shootings on the South and Southwest sides on Friday.
In the most recent killing, a 52-year-old man identified as Victor Carrillo was seated inside a parked car in an alley off the 4400 block of South Marshfield Avenue in the Back of the Yards neighborhood when someone shot him in the chest about 8:15 p.m., police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Carrillo, of the 4400 block of South Marshfield Avenue, went in a private vehicle to Stroger Hospita where was pronounced dead at 8:52 p.m., according to police and the office.
The other fatal attack happened shortly before 4 p.m. in the Wrightwood neighborhood on the Southwest Side in the 8000 block of South California Avenue, police said. Two men, both 26, were sitting in a vehicle when a gunman walked up and shot them both.
One still-unidentified man suffered multiple wounds to his body, and was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was pronounced dead. The other man was shot in a bicep. His condition was stabilized at the same hospital, police said
Other shootings:
• On the South Side, a 28-year-old man was shot about 5:15 p.m. in the first block of East 70th Street in the Greater Grand Crossing area, police said. He was outside when a dark vehicle pulled up, and someone fired shots in his direction. He suffered a wound to the rear side of his body and was taken Advocate Christ, where his condition was stabilized, police said.
• About 3:45 p.m., a 19-year-old man was shot in the face and chest in the 200 block of West 94th Street in the city’s Princeton Park neighborhood, according to officials. The teen was earlier in a physical fight with someone he knew, and the person returned in a light-colored vehicle and shot the teen, police said. He was taken to Advocate Christ, where his condition was stabilized. Police previously said the shooting happened in the 9400 block of South Yale Avenue.
• Two men, 21 and 30, were shot in the Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side about 3:30 p.m., police said. They were walking in the 1700 block of North Keeler Avenue when a gunman got out of a dark-colored vehicle and fired at them, police said. The 21-year-old was shot in the left side of his face and taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition, police said. The 30-year-old was shot in the chest and face and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, police said.
• Around the same time and location, in the 4200 block of West Grand Avenue, another person was shot in the leg, police said. He was walking when someone inside a vehicle fired shots at him, police said. He was taken to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park in good condition with a gunshot wound to his right calf, according to police.
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