Two men were fatally shot, and six others were wounded between Wednesday morning and early Thursday in separate shootings in Chicago, police said.
The latest fatal attack happened shortly after 2:20 p.m. in the 3300 block of West Congress Parkway in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, police said.
Steven Wheeler, 24, was shot in the upper back and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:52 p.m., according to authorities.
Earlier Wednesday on the South Side, a 22-year-old man died after he was shot and crashed his car in the South Chicago neighborhood.
Jeromee Russell was shot several times in the head around 10:50 a.m. in the 2700 block of East 80th Street, police said. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
He had lived in the 8400 block of South Dante Avenue, the medical examiner said.
Other shootings
About 3:10 a.m. Thursday on the South Side, a 38-year-old man was shot in the 400 block of West 63rd Street in the Englewood neighborhood, police said. He was at St. Bernard Hospital with a gunshot wound to the knee.
On the Far South Side, a 21-year-old was shot in the right leg and left thigh about 9:20 p.m. Wednesday in the Golden Gate neighborhood, police said. The man was in a gangway in the 400 block of East 133rd Street when people came up to him and fired shots. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition was stabilized.
Around 7:05 p.m. on the Southwest Side, a 25-year-old man was shot in the right arm in the 4200 block of South Kedzie Avenue in the Brighton Park neighborhood. He told police he was walking outside the location when an unknown offender in a ski mask fired one shot at him. He was taken in good condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.
Shortly after 3:20 p.m. on the West Side, a 20-year-old man suffered wounds to the buttocks in the 1200 block of South Lawndale Avenue, police said. The victim, who was being uncooperative with police, was taken in good condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.
Shortly after 1 p.m. on the South Side, a 23-year-old man was wounded in a shooting in the Englewood neighborhood in the 1000 block of West 59th Street, police said. The man was walking when someone in a dark-colored sedan pulled up and fired shots. The man was struck in the leg and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was listed in good condition, police said.
A 16-year-old boy was shot on the West Side around 12:50 p.m. He was involved in an argument with a gunman who shot him in the left leg in the 1100 block of South Richmond Street in Lawndale, police said. The 16-year-old was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was in good condition.
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