A 7-year-old boy was hit in the chin by a bullet fragment as he and his family were driving through the Bucktown neighborhood Thursday night, according to Chicago police.
The boy was taken to St. Mary’s of Nazareth Hospital in good condition, police said.
The family’s car was in the 1600 block of North Claremont Avenue when “known offenders” fired shots, police said. Three other people were in the car but were not injured: A 56-year-old woman, an 18-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man.
Yellow crime scene tape stretched across an alley intersecting Claremont, marking a small and quiet crime scene. A group of people argued with one another and police officers on Oakley Street nearby.
The boy was among 11 people hit by gunfire over 12 hours in Chicago Thursday and early Friday.
While officers worked the scene in Bucktown, a 24-year-old man was shot and killed in Englewood on the South Side, police said.
Two people shot at the man as he drove in the 2000 block of West 71st Street about 12:15 a.m. Friday. A bullet hit him in the head and he crashed into a gate, police said. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Evidence markers were placed near more than 20 shell casings in the street. Police taped off most of the block of single-family homes.
Several people stood around the western edge of the scene, while others gathered in groups on porches. One woman cried out that the man was her uncle and she wouldn’t leave while his body was still there.
Earlier, a 28-year-old man was shot in the head about a mile away. He was with a 23-year-old man in the 6400 block of South Hoyne Avenue around 7 p.m. when a car pulled up and someone inside started shooting, police said. The 28-year-old was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead. The younger man was taken to the same hospital with a gunshot wound to the hip.
The day’s first homicide occurred in the Lawndale neighborhood in the 4900 block of Arthington Street. About 12:50 p.m., a 28-year-old man was shot and killed, and another man, 22, was shot in the leg and taken to a hospital in good condition.
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In other shootings:
In Englewood, an 18-year-old man shot himself in the left thigh about 9:40 p.m. Thursday in the 5500 block of South Lafayette Avenue, police said. He was taken in good condition to the University of Chicago Medical Center.
On the West Side, a 21-year-old man was shot in the foot in the East Garfield Park neighborhood about 7:15 p.m., police said. The man was in the 700 block of North Lawndale Avenue when someone came up to him and started shooting, police said. He was taken to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where his condition was stabilized.
In Back of the Yards, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the hand at about 1 p.m. in the 5100 block of South Halsted Street, police said. The teen was taken to St. Bernard Hospital, where he was listed in good condition. The teen told police he was walking when he heard shots.
On the Northwest Side, a 19-year-old man was shot in the Cragin neighborhood about 12:25 p.m. That shooting happened in the 4800 block of West Diversey Avenue. The victim suffered a wound to the right forearm and was taken to Community First Medical Center, where he was listed in good condition, police said.
No one was in custody and police were investigating.