Chicago authorities are reporting six people, including two teenagers, were shot at a Laundromat in the city’s South Shore neighborhood. No arrests have been reported.
Initially seven people were reported shot. But the shooting wounded two teens and four adults. The seventh person, earlier reported as shot, was injured while running away from the gunshots.
Chicago police,firefighters, and paramedics responded about 8:05 p.m. Monday to reports of the shooting in the 2600 block of East 79th Street. A man had fired a handgun into a crowd of people in a laundromat in the Horizon Plaza strip mall on 79th Street between Marquette Avenue and Saginaw.
The youngest person shot was a 14-year-old boy, who was shot in the leg and transported to Level I Trauma Center University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital. A 16-year-old boy was also shot in the leg and was transported to Level I Trauma Center Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
A 27-year-old woman was shot in the leg.
Three male adults, ages 41, 42 and 52 were also shot. The men suffered wounds to the elbow, arm and leg, respectively.
The Chicago Fire Department responded with an EMS Plan 1, with at least six ambulances at the scene.
MON JUN 02 2014 ~8:13 PM CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT MULTIPLE GUNSHOT VICTIMS/EMS PLAN I 7900 S MARQUETTE AVE CHICAGO http://t.co/ANAj93t2JD
— ChicagoFireMap (@ChicagoFireMap) June 3, 2014
Just over a week ago police shot and killed a man that was threatening firefighters and civilians with a knife at 71st Street and Racine, about 6 miles west of the multiple shooting Monday night.
SAT MAY 24 2014 ~11:20 PM CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT KNIFE ATTACK/POLICE SHOOTING 71ST AND RACINE AVE CHICAGO http://t.co/SVT54BBm57
— ChicagoFireMap (@ChicagoFireMap) May 25, 2014