At Least 12 Killed, 43 Wounded In Weekend Shootings Across Chicago
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CHICAGO (CBS) At least 55 people were shot across Chicago over the weekend, 12 of them fatally, including a 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head on the front porch of a home in Lawndale, and three double homicides.
Dajon Gater, 15, was on the front porch of a home in the 3900 block of West Lexington Street around 11:50 p.m. Friday, when two people approached him, pulled out guns, and started shooting, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
He was rushed to the Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition but died a few hours later.
Published April 5, 2021 •
Updated on April 5, 2021 at 8:00 am
A garage fire spread to three others early Monday in Hegewisch on the Far South Side only two blocks away from a blaze that swept through three others days earlier.
About 12:05 a.m., firefighters responded to the 13500 block of South Buffalo Avenue and began to extinguish a garage fire, according to Chicago Fire deputy district chief Curtis Hudson. Get the answer to your most-asked COVID vaccine questions on our mobile NBC 5 Chicago app. Download it here for iOS or Android.
The blaze caused radiant heat exposure to spread to three garages across the alley in the 13500 block of South Burley Avenue, Hudson said. No one was injured.