A pair of mass shootings in Englewood wounded two children.
Four people were killed, and twenty-eight others were wounded in shootings Thursday in Chicago, including a man who was killed in a drive-by in West Garfield Park. The 25-year-old was standing on the porch about 4:15 p.m. in the 4000 block of West Van Buren Street when a car drove by and someone from inside fired shots, Chicago police said. He was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene. He hasn’t been identified. A man was killed in a shooting in South Shore. He was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to his forehead about 8:25 a.m. outside an apartment building in the 6800 block of South Ridgeland Avenue, police said. The 30-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. He was identified as Donzell Bailey by the Cook County medical examiner’s office. A man was found fatally shot in a car in Gage Park on the Southwest Side. The man,29, was discovered about 5:55 a.m. in the 5400 block of South Artesian Avenue with a gunshot wound to his face, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. He was identified as Melvin Ajtun by the Cook County medical examiner’s office. A woman was killed and an 8-year-old girl and another woman were wounded in Roseland on the Far South Side. About 1:10 a.m., the two women were sitting on the porch of a home in the 11300 block of South Wentworth Avenue when someone stepped from a white Nissan and fired at them, police said.
