Two men were killed and another was wounded in an attack in Humboldt Park on the West Side.
Seventeen people were shot, four of them fatally, Monday in Chicago. The latest fatal shooting left a man dead Monday evening in Rogers Park on the North Side. About 7 p.m., the 20-year-old was in the back seat of a vehicle in the 6700 block of North Newgard Avenue when someone approached and fired shots after an exchange of words, Chicago police said. The man was struck in the chest and taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead. Just over an hour earlier, two men were killed and another was wounded in an attack in Humboldt Park on the West Side. They were on a corner about 5:50 p.m. in the 3600 block of West Division Street when someone fired shots from a black Chevy Equinox, Chicago police said. One man,32, and another,25, were both struck in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The third man,26, was struck in the leg and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition. Early Monday, a man was found shot to death near Midway Airport in Clearing on the Southwest Side. Officers responding to a ShotSpotter alert for gunfire about 2 a.m. in the 4700 block of West 59th Street found the 20-year-old unresponsive in the driver’s seat of a car that apparently hit a tree, according to Chicago police.
