CHICAGO â As the long holiday weekend wore on, Chicago police Sunday morning were investigating several shootings overnight, including multiple homicides, separate attacks that left teenagers wounded and a shooting in Gresham that left four men injured, two of them critically.
At least 26 people had been wounded in shootings since Friday afternoon and 10 others had been fatally shot, according to Tribune records.
The Gresham attack that left four men wounded was a drive-by shooting in the 1000 block of West 89th Street shortly before midnight. The men had been standing outside when an unidentified person in a passing car began shooting in their direction, according to Chicago police.
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A University of Chicago student died Sunday after he was shot while riding the Green Line train Thursday in Washington Park on the South Side.
Max Solomon Lewis, 20, was picked up by paramedics at a Green Line station in the 300 block of East 51st Street around 6 p.m., police and the University of Chicago said. He was shot in the neck and was transported in critical condition to the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Lewis, a third-year student at the University of Chicago, died of his injuries Sunday, police and university officials said.
The bullet apparently crashed through the window of the train, police said. Lewis was not believed to be the intended target, according to police. No one was in custody.