One man was found shot to death after a Southwest Side crash, while another was killed in Bronzeville.
Two people were killed and 11 others were injured in shootings Thursday across Chicago. The latest fatal attack left one man dead and another injured that afternoon on the Southwest Side. They were headed north in a vehicle about 1:40 p.m. in the 3700 block of South Western Avenue when they slammed into another vehicle, Chicago police said. Paramedics responded to the crash and found that the men had been shot, but it wasn’t immediately clear where the shooting took place, according to police and fire officials. A 20-year-old was shot in the shoulder and pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The other man,21, was found with a gunshot wound to the back and taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition. A woman,39, and a 3-year-old boy in the other vehicle were taken to Stroger with non-life threatening injuries. Another man was shot to death early Thursday in Bronzeville on the South Side. Imani Heath,42, was found in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle about 12:50 a.m. in the 700 block of East 42nd Street, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Heath, who lived in South Saint Paul, Minnesota, had been shot several times in the body, and was pronounced dead at the scene. The day’s latest nonfatal shooting left a 31-year-old man wounded during a carjacking Thursday night in Austin on the West Side.
