The shooting was reported at around 7:30 p.m. at a residence in the 8000 block of South Vincennes. According to police, four individuals were inside the home when two men entered and opened fire.

The 14-year-old boy was shot in the back and died at the scene, according to police. A 36-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound to the chest and was later pronounced dead at an area hospital. A third victim, a 20-year-old man, was shot in the abdomen and died after arriving at the hospital, police stated.

A second teenager, a 17-year-old boy, sustained a gunshot wound to the left leg and was reported to be in fair condition.

A potential motive remained unclear late Sunday night.

No one was in custody as Area Two detectives continued to investigate.

The shooting was reported at around 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the park, 7340 N. Rogers Ave. According to police, four people were standing in the park when two individuals approached and fired toward the victims.

A 19-year-old woman was shot in the chest and taken to an area hospital, where she later died. A 22-year-old woman was shot in the right foot and hospitalized in good condition, police said.

A third victim, a 20-year-old man, sustained a gunshot wound to the forehead and was listed in good condition. A fourth victim, an 19-year-old man, was shot in the left hip and taken to the hospital in good condition.

The suspects fled northbound on Winchester Avenue following the shooting.

No one was in custody late as Area Three detectives continued to investigate.

The shooting was reported at around 10:58 a.m. in the 0-100 block of North Wabash, according to Chicago police. Authorities explained that a suspect entered a business and attempted to take property, at which point an individual opened fire, striking the offender.

The person who fired shots possesses a concealed-carry license and a Firearm Owners’ Identification Card, police said. Following the shooting, the offender fled the business without any items.

The suspect was located by police a short time later and taken to an area hospital, where they were reported to be in stable condition.

No one else was injured, police said.

Charges were pending late Saturday afternoon as detectives continued to investigate.

At around 1:38 p.m., police were called to Family Dollar, 5410 W. Chicago Ave., where a man had been shot. According to authorities, a 43-year-old man was approached by a suspect who opened fire. The victim, identified by family as Loyce Wright, was struck multiple times and later died at the hospital.

Shanice Wright, one of Loyce Wright’s daughters, said he was the greatest father, adding that her heart hurts so bad.

“…He never let us forget how much he loved us, and I love my father immensely, and I wish there were tighter gun laws so tragic things like this won’t continue to happen,” she told NBC Chicago in a text.

Jeremy Richardson, a childhood friend of Loyce Wright’s, said he couldn’t believe what happened.

“…And I’m holding back my tears right now. I need to see this for my own eyes,” Richardson said. “He was a good friend, lift weights, cheerful, love his kids, love his family. I cannot imagine something like this.”

Richardson urges whoever shot and killed his friend to come forward, and he’s confident they will get caught.

“When the streets talk, they gonna talk and this person ain’t gonna hide forever. You just murdered a good friend of everybodys,” he said. “This is so sad, you have to come to a Family Dollar just to shoot. For what?”

NBC Chicago spoke to several nearby employees and frequent customers who shared in their grief.

Family Dollar issued the following statement Saturday afternoon:

“We are deeply saddened by the tragic incident that occurred at one of our Family Dollar stores in Chicago on Friday. We are cooperating with local authorities as they investigate the crime. Out of respect for the family’s privacy, no further comment will be offered at this time.”

As of late Friday, no arrests had been made.

The shooting remained under investigation by detectives.

In an email to residents, Vasquez said the 20th Police District — which covers Lincoln Square and Edgewater — will have additional officers from CPD’s Priority Response Team on Monday night and encouraged residents to keep an eye out for Kia and Hyundai vehicles, which have been used in the robberies.

Five robberies occurred between 6 p.m. Sunday and midnight, stretching between West Ridge, Edgewater and North Center.

The string of robberies started in the 6200 block of North Leavitt Street about 6:14 p.m. when a 26-year-old man was approached by five people who exited a silver sedan and took things from him after a “physical altercation,” police said.

Fifteen minutes later, in the 1500 block of West Ardmore Avenue, three people approached a 33-year-old woman and demanded her property before taking it and fleeing the scene, police said.

Around 7:18 p.m., three men exited a sedan and approached two other men — 21 and 22 — before one of the men hit the two victims with an object, police said. Both victims refused medical attention at the scene.

Ten minutes after that, a 15-year-old boy was in the 5500 block of North Rockwell Avenue when two people exited a dark sedan and took his property after a “physical altercation,” police said. The boy was taken to Swedish Covenant Hospital; his condition was unknown.

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Several hours later, about 11:40 p.m., an 18-year-old man was in the 300 block of West Peterson Avenue when a black sedan hit him and one of the two occupants displayed a gun, police said. The man was able to flee the scene, and no injuries were reported.

No arrests were made in connection with any of the robberies.

“Neighbors are encouraged to be on alert for suspiciously approaching Kias and Hyundais, which are more susceptible to theft due to vehicle software vulnerabilities,” Vasquez wrote in the email. “These stolen vehicles are then often used to commit additional crimes. The 40th Ward will continue to share alerts as we receive them from CPD.”

According to Chicago police, a man, 21, was driving eastbound at approximately 3:38 a.m. when a white Jeep began following him in in the 4300 block of West Montrose. A man from the white Jeep then fired shots at the victim, striking him in the back of the head, police said.

The victim crashed into multiple vehicles and came to a stop after hitting a tree, police continued. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

According to officials, the white Jeep fled the scene and continued southbound on Whipple.

No one was in custody and detectives were investigating, police said.

NBC 5 Traffic reporter Kye Martin reported Irving Park was blocked at Whipple due to the police investigation, with additional closures at Sacramento and Albany. The #80 CTA bus was also being re-routed, Martin added.

This is a developing story and will be updated as more details become available.

According to officials, the first incident occurred at 9:53 p.m. 5900 block of West Grand in the city’s Belmont Central neighborhood.

Police said three men, armed with handguns, entered a convenience store and robbed the clerk at gunpoint.

Shortly after that, at 11:16 p.m., in the Avondale neighborhood three armed men entered a convenience store in the 3200 block of West Diversey. According to police, the men robbed the clerk at gunpoint, and took an unknown amount of cash from the register, along with several cartons of cigarettes.

No injuries were reported in either incident, police said.

Police have not said if the robberies were related.

Both incidents remained under investigation, officials said.

According to police, a man, 28, was at a gas station at 12:50 a.m. in the 6300 block of North Central Avenue when two armed males forced him out of his vehicle.

The men struck the victim in the head with a handgun and then fled the scene in his Audi SUV, police added.

Security footage from the incident shows one of the suspects entering the SUV’s passenger side door, while another enters the backseat. After a few seconds, the victim can be seen opening the driver’s side door and running away from the vehicle.

The suspects can the be seen flee the gas station in the victim’s car.

The victim was transported to a nearby hospital and was last listed in good condition. No one was in custody, police said.

The incident comes following other recent violent vehicular hijackings n the city, including several reported by rideshare drivers.

According to police, a rideshare driver was shot and critically injured during an attempted carjacking Wednesday in the city’s Austin neighborhood. And last week, police issued a community alert warning of several carjackings, where the victims were hit in the head with a gun.

Judge Susana Ortiz said that although she didn’t believe there was a legally justifiable reason for Omotayo Kassim to shoot a man with whom he was involved in a minor traffic accident, she said she believed it was “an isolated incident” and monitoring was enough to ensure his return to court and the protection of the community.

Ortiz said Kassim would also be required to surrender any firearms in his possession to police, could not drive and would be largely restricted to his home as the case continues.

Kassim, 34, was driving to get food about 8 p.m. Sunday in a Chevrolet Tahoe when both he and the 35-year-old driver of a Jeep disobeyed stop signs at a four-way intersection near the 5200 block of North Clark Street, Cook County prosecutors said in court Wednesday.

Kassim’s SUV struck the Jeep, but its driver did not stop and instead drove off, prosecutors said. A dash-mounted camera in Kassim’s SUV and multiple surveillance cameras then captured a six-minute chase as the firefighter pursued the Jeep on Foster Avenue.

Kassim allegedly struck the Jeep from behind with his SUV several times. The Jeep crashed into parked cars in the 1600 block of West Foster Avenue in Andersonville, according to a police report.

Kassim got out of the Tahoe brandishing a gun, and moments later fired a shot that struck the Jeep driver in his jaw, prosecutors said.

“Judge, this happened incredibly, incredibly fast,” Assistant State’s Attorney Anne McCord Rodgers said.

After firing once, the gun jammed, a police report said.

At a nearby church, Philip Fahey, 63, and a friend were preparing for an event and said they saw what happened.

“Don’t move or I’ll shoot,” the firefighter yelled, according to Fahey.

“We heard a pop,” Fahey told the Sun-Times. “The guy in the Tahoe realizes he left his truck in gear, and it was rolling down the street.”

“I thought [the pop] was part of the car accident,” Fahey said. “When he said he got shot and there was a shooting, I realized it was actually a gunshot.”

A cab driver in the area called 911, and Kassim began arguing with the Jeep’s passenger, a 34-year-old West Ridge man who stepped out with his hands up, according to police.

They argued until paramedics arrived, according to Fahey. The passenger declined to comment when reached by the Sun-Times.

“It just seems kind of unreasonable that this guy got shot for a traffic altercation,” Fahey said.assim was arrested at the scene and charged Tuesday with aggravated battery with a firearm, attempted murder and aggravated discharge of a firearm.

The Jeep driver was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition. Prosecutors said the bullet that struck his jaw remained lodged in his spine.

Kassim’s attorney, David McDermott, disputed the prosecutor’s characterization of the events, claiming that the Jeep driver had been drinking and “violently” struck Kassim’s SUV before fleeing the scene.

McDermott said Kassim was trying to protect the community by going after the Jeep driver and that his client fired because the Jeep driver reached for Kassim’s gun.

Ortiz said she believed the firefighter had put the public in significant danger by driving recklessly in pursuit of the Jeep and firing the gun on the street. The judge also noted Kassim would have received training specifically about road rage incidents in order to receive his concealed carry permit and should have known better.

“You call the police and you report it,” Ortiz said.

Kassim, employed by the Chicago Fire Department since 2019, was removed from duty pending the results of the investigation, fire spokesperson Larry Langford said.

In August 2015, a warrant was issued for Kassim’s arrest after he left Colorado while facing charges of trespassing a vehicle with intent to commit a crime, but the case was dropped a month later, court documents showed.

The victim’s father told the Sun-Times that his son was still sedated and intubated Tuesday afternoon.

“All of our family, we’re just praying,” said the victim’s father, who didn’t want to be named. “We’re stunned by this, especially, I mean, the way it happened.”

The man’s father saw his son Sunday morning, hours before he was shot.

“He said, ‘I love you guys’ like he always does and just left,” he said.

He described his son as someone who is “a very loving person and is always happy.

“He makes you smile no matter what.”

The driver, a 51-year-old man, was dropping off a fare at approximately 10:10 p.m. in the 900 block of North LeClaire Avenue when three males approached him, authorities said.

They men took the driver’s cellphone and told him to get out of the vehicle, police said. When the driver refused, one of the men fired shots, striking the driver in the chest, police added.

According to officials, the victim was transported to a nearby hospital in critical condition. No one was in custody.

The shooting comes after a similar incident last week in the same neighborhood, when a Lyft driver was shot and killed after dropping passengers off.

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Family members said Arocha Duque, 34, a Lyft driver, was dropping two passengers off at 8:45 p.m. last Tuesday on Thomas Street and Cicero Avenue.

According to Chicago police, officers responded to the 4800 block of West Thomas, where a car had struck two parked vehicles. When they arrived found a woman, later identified as Duque, sitting in the driver’s seat. She had been shot in the head and was pronounced dead on the scene, authorities said.

“Our hearts are with Ms. Arocha-Duque’s loved ones as they confront this unspeakable tragedy,” Lyft said in a statement. “We have reached out to her family to offer our support and are in contact with law enforcement to assist with their investigation.”

According to a community alert issued by police on Friday, at least seven rideshare drivers were robbed in the month of December. In several incidents, the victims were hit in the head with a gun. It wasn’t immediately clear if any of the incidents are connected.

Officers found the children in a home in Austin on Sunday afternoon. The oldest child is 11, and the youngest is 1, police said.

Dominique Bishop-Smith, 29, was charged with four misdemeanor counts of child endangerment.

The 11-year-old waved down officers about 1:30 p.m. in the 4800 block of West Jackson Boulevard. He told them he had been left alone with other children in a house on the block. When they went to the address officers found a 1-year-old boy, a 4-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy, according to police.

The relation between the children and Bishop-Smith is not clear. They were taken to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park as a precaution when officers were unable to find a guardian, police said.

Citing initial data, 11,025 robberies were reported in 2023, compared to 8,965 in 2022, making for a 23% increase, CPD said. Robbery arrests were also up, CPD said, from 891 in 2022 compared to 1,075 in 2023.

Preliminary data reported by CPD also showed vehicle-related arrests — which includes possession of a stolen vehicle and vehicular carjacking — rose almost 19% throughout 2023. Carjackings in 2023 were down by 20%, CPD said, with 1,307 reported in 2023, compared to 1,649 in 2022.

Shooting incidents dropped across the city in 2023, with the number of gunshot victims down nearly 18%, according to CPD.

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Murders also dropped citywide. A total of 671 people were shot and killed in Chicago throughout 2023 compared to 709 people a year prior, marking a more than 12% decrease.

“In a city as big as Chicago, 12% is a lot of people,” said Roseanna Ander with the University of Chicago Crime Lab. “That means families that are not grieving the loss of a loved one and the huge ripple effect that those homicides have. So I think it is a place to really celebrate, but not lose sight of the work still ahead.”

The University of Chicago Crime Lab last week released its annual crime report, which found Black Chicagoans are 20 times more likely to become victims of crime than white Chicagoans.

“That gap has gotten smaller but it is still shockingly large,” Ander said. “It shows progress is possible, but we still have a ways to go.”

According to CPD, a comprehensive analysis with finalized numbers on crime in Chicago in 2023 was expected to be released Tuesday. This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

Adriana Arocha Duque lost her life just one day after celebrating Christmas with her family.

“I didn’t imagine it, so it’s something so horrible that I can’t think about it clearly,” said her nephew, Jose Chacon.

In an interview with NBC Chicago and Telemundo Chicago, Chacon said their family is now coping with the loss of someone he described as a beautiful person inside and out. 

“She was special, [a] strong, working woman, very loving, she had many friends,” he said.

Family members said she was driving for Lyft at around 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday night and was dropping off two passengers in the Austin neighborhood when something happened. As of late Friday, it’s still unclear what exactly transpired.

According to Chicago police, they responded to the 4800 block of West Thomas, where a car had struck two parked vehicles. Officers found a woman, later identified as Arocha Duque, sitting in the driver’s seat. She had been shot in the head and was pronounced dead on the scene, authorities said.

“Justice needs to be done because we understand that this is not the last person that has experienced this in the same area this month,” said the victim’s brother-in-law, Jhonny Chacon.

According to a community alert issued by police on Friday, at least seven rideshare drivers were robbed in December. In several incidents, the victims were hit in the head with a gun. It remains unclear if the incidents are connected or if the same suspects are responsible for Arocha Duque’s death.

“This time it happened to her, tomorrow, it could happen to someone else… No we don’t want it to happen to anyone,” said her nephew.

Lyft issued a statement, saying, “Our hearts are with Ms. Arocha-Duque’s loved ones as they confront this unspeakable tragedy. We have reached out to her family to offer our support and are in contact with law enforcement to assist with their investigation.”

Arocha Duque, who was 34 years old, was originally from Venezuela and immigrated to the states seeking asylum, her nephew said. She cared for her dog Hunter, and was driving for Lyft to make extra money.

“We want justice and somehow the applications have to take action,” he said, referring to rideshare companies.

A witness told police they saw a man and woman running away from the vehicle. Family said they were caught on surveillance video, but so far no suspect descriptions have been released.

Area Four detectives were investigating late Friday.

According to police, the incident occurred at 3:11 a.m. in the 100 block of North Aberdeen, when the driver of a Jeep with several passengers inside struck the security gate and front door at the clothing shop SVRN.

The individuals took an unknown amount of merchandise and then fled the scene in several vehicles, police said.

Surveillance video from outside the shop shows several cars stopped in front of the shop before the burglary, with at least three large concrete anchors in front of the entrance.

At one point in the footage, an individual can be seen working to tie what appears to be a wire from one of the barriers barrier to an SUV in the middle of the street. The driver of the SUV can then be seen pulling the heavy concrete barrier off the sidewalk by slamming on the gas.

At another point in the video, one individual works to direct another car, a Jeep, to drive onto the sidewalk and up to the store front. The individual continues to stand close to the Jeep as it rams multiple times through the front entrance.

Surveillance video from inside the store shows the car breaking through the glass, with individuals running inside and grabbing merchandise. The individuals can then be seen fleeing the scene in multiple vehicles, with the Jeep still smashed through the front entrance.

SVRN owners David and Robert Kim told NBC Chicago the break-in at their store is the third in three weeks.

“We’ve done everything we could,” David said. “We put barriers up, gates. Hiding our inventory in our stock room. They are still relentless enough, and no one is doing anything to stop these across the city.”

David added that the burglary at SVRN — the Kim family’s small business — is at least the seventh or eight break-in in the past two years.

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“All this will be coming out of our pocket,” David said.

The burglary is similar to other recent “crash-and-grabs” across Chicago, including one last month where suspects smashed into a River North store in an attempt to take an ATM machine.

In October, shocking surveillance video showed a stolen SUV crashing into a sneaker store in the Tri-Taylor neighborhood, with several suspects running into the store and grabbing merchandise before fleeing the scene.

“I love this city,” David said. “I have a lot of pride for this city. But I think everyone in power needs to do a better job and look out for its community. This is pretty sad.”

According to police, no one was in custody, and detectives were investigating.

According to police, the incident occurred at 3:11 a.m. in the 100 block of North Aberdeen, when the driver of a Jeep with several passengers inside struck the security gate and front door at the clothing shop SVRN.

The individuals took an unknown amount of merchandise and then fled the scene in several vehicles, police said.

Store owners David and Robert Kim told NBC Chicago the break-in at their store is the third in three weeks.

“We’ve done everything we could,” David said. “We put barriers up, gates. Hiding our inventory in our stock room. They are still relentless enough, and no one is doing anything to stop these across the city.”

David added that the burglary at SVRN — the Kim family’s small business — is at least the seventh or eight break-in in the past two years.

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Photos and video from the scene show a Jeep smashed through the front entrance, with shattered glass and a mangled storefront.

“All this will be coming out of our pocket,” David said.

The burglary is similar to other recent “crash-and-grabs” across Chicago, including one last month where suspects smashed into a River North store in an attempt to take an ATM machine.

In October, shocking surveillance video showed a stolen SUV crashing into a sneaker store in the Tri-Taylor neighborhood, with several suspects running into the store and grabbing merchandise before fleeing the scene.

“I love this city,” David said. “I have a lot of pride for this city. But I think everyone in power needs to do a better job and look out for its community. This is pretty sad.”

According to police, no one was in custody, and detectives were investigating.

According to officials, the incident occurred just after 6 a.m., when a group of people crashed an SUV into a retail business in the 300 block of West Superior.

The suspects then attempted to an ATM machine but were unable and left it on scene, police said.

The group got back into the SUV, as well as other waiting vehicles and fled northbound on Orleans, and then eastbound on Chicago, officials said.

Video and photos from the scene so extensive damage to a glass store front, with windows and doors completely shattered. On the ground near the store lay an ATM.

According to police, no injuries were reported.

No further details were immediately available.

The teen, whose name was withheld because he’s a minor, was arrested Monday in the 5300 block of West Potomac Avenue and charged with 11 counts of armed robbery with a firearm, Chicago police said.

The teen was identified as one of the suspects sought in a string of armed robberies Aug. 20 between 12:30 a.m. and 5:40 a.m., police said.

The robberies occurred in Englewood, East Garfield Park, Austin, Auburn Gresham, Grand Crossing, McKinley Park and Bridgeport, officials said.

The string of robberies started in the 600 block of West 63rd Street where a 29-year-old woman was robbed, authorities said. From there, the teen is accused of participating in robberies: in the 3600 block of West Lake Street; 1400 block of North Central Avenue; 1900 block of West 79th Street; 7900 block of South Racine Avenue; 600 block of East 79th Street; 500 block of East 79th Street; 3400 block of South Ashland Avenue; and 1000 block of West 35th Street, police said.

The victims ranged from 22 to 54 years old, police said. Other suspects are being sought, police said.

No additional information was immediately available.

In two of the incidents, the suspects were seen exiting and entering a blue sedan, police said. In four others, witnesses reported suspects fleeing the scene in a black car.

Although the incidents share similarities, authorities have not confirmed whether the robberies, which took place over the span of two hours, were connected.

Here’s what we know about each one:

At approximately 9:36 p.m. in the 700 block of W 15th St., in the East Pilsen neighborhood, police said two adult males were walking on the street when they were approached by a blue Honda sedan. Two unknown males exited the sedan with handguns, approached the victims and demanded personal property, officials said.

The victims complied and no one was inured, police said.

Approximately 25 minutes later, at 9:55 p.m., in the 1400 block of W. Lexington St. in Little Italy, three adult females were standing outside on the sidewalk when an unknown male with a handgun approached and demanded their personal property, according to police. The victims complied, and the man fled the scene in a blue sedan, police said.

Shortly after that, at approximately 10:19 p.m., a male, 33 was exiting his vehicle at 3200 N. LeClair Ave. in Portage Park when he was approached by a black Nissan, police said. Four unknown males armed with handguns and a rifle exited the vehicle and demanded the victim’s personal property, police said. The victim complied and the suspects re-entered the vehicle and fled the scene, according to officials.

Sources tell NBC Chicago that the victim in that incident was an off-duty police officer.

At 10:55 p.m., in the 3800 block of S. Wallace St. in Bridgeport, a man, 50, was approached by a two males armed with handguns that had exited a black sedan. The suspects demanded the man’s personal property and the victim complied, police said.

Approximately 30 minutes later, at 11:30 p.m., an adult male was driving westbound on 83rd Street in the Ashburn neighborhood when a black Nissan pulled up alongside him, police said.

According to authorities, four armed men got out of the vehicle and demanded the victim’s belongings. The victim complied, and no injuries were reported, police said.

Shortly after midnight, police reported that another similar armed robbery took place in the 8000 block of South Cottage. According to officials, a 52-year-old man was walking to his vehicle when a black Nissan sedan approached and three armed males exited the car.

The suspects demanded the man’s personal property and he complied. The suspects then fled the scene in the same vehicle, police said.

Saturday, Chicago police issued a community alert warning residents that a group of armed men traveling in a black Nissan Altima were responsible for at least 10 robberies.

In those instances, two of the victims were struck by the suspects, and one victim was shot.

“Be aware of your surroundings and unfamiliar or suspicious people in your area,” the alert said. “Walk with groups of individuals and do not carry large sums of money. Do not try to rationalize or confront offenders, it could lead to possible injury.”

According to police, detectives are investigating and no one was in custody.

A total of 10 incidents were reported between 4 and 10:30 p.m., Chicago police said in a community alert. In each incident, multiple suspects exited a black Nissan, pointed handguns at the victims and demanded property before driving away.

In two of the robberies, the victims were struck by one of the suspects, police said. A liquor store employee was shot in the incident in the 4400 block of West Belmont Avenue.

The robberies occurred at the following locations and times:

• 1800 block of North Lorel Avenue – 4 p.m.
• 1700 block of West Beach Avenue – 5:10 p.m.
• 3200 block of North Cicero Avenue – 5:56 p.m.
• 1800 block of North Keeler Avenue – 6:15 p.m.
• 4600 block of West Irving Park Road – 6:20 p.m.
• 4200 block of West Kamerling Avenue – 7:02 p.m.
• 6100 block of West Diversey Avenue – 9:47 p.m.
• 1300 block of West Wicker Park Avenue – 10 p.m.
• 4400 block of West Belmont Avenue – 10:24 p.m.
• 5600 block of West Diversey Avenue – 10:30 p.m.

The three suspects were said to be in an Black Nissan Altima with Illinois license plate number BM86024. Anyone with information is asked to contact Area Five Bureau of Detectives at 312-746-7394.

The latest string of robberies follows a separate crime spree in which robbers targeted 12 victims in one hour on Thanksgiving morning. Chicago police haven’t said if the same group is suspected in both.

The man, 47, was in the 300 block of North Dearborn Street when two men asked him for money around 11:30 p.m., according to Chicago police.

One of the men punched the victim and officers later found him unresponsive on the sidewalk. He was taken to Northwestern Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead with a head injury.

Photo and video from the scene shows a heavy police presence and detectives collecting evidence outside the House of Blues. The venue did not immediately respond to NBC Chicago’s request for comment.

No one is in custody and detectives are investigating.

The incident, part of a string of similar events referred to as “crash and grabs,” occurred at approximately 4:27 a.m. in the 1500 block of North Milwaukee Avenue, at the Round Two Chicago store in Wicker Park, police said.

According to authorities, a driver crashed an SUV into the retail business. Those inside the vehicle were not able to make entry inside, and no proceeds were taken, police said.

The suspect or suspects then fled in an unknown direction, leaving the SUV on the scene.

No injuries were reported. Police did not confirm how many suspects were involved.

The incident bears resemblance to several recent “crash and grabs,” where police say burglars use a stolen vehicle as a battering ram to initiate a crime. Last week, Flee Club, a shoe store in the in the Tri-Taylor neighborhood, was the latest retail victim of such an instance, wherein a group of suspects used a stolen vehicle to break through the reinforced storefront and make off with thousands of dollars worth of merchandise.

Police did not confirm whether the SUV used in Tuesday’s incident was stolen.

This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

According to the Chicago Fire Department, the crash was connected to a shooting that injured two people outside the 3rd District police station, 7040 S. Cottage Grove Ave. A man and woman were near the sidewalk when they were approached by a vehicle, and at least one person inside produced a gun and fired shots, police said. The man was struck in the thigh, and the woman sustained a graze wound to the buttocks.

Both victims were taken to the hospital in good condition. According to authorities, Chicago police officers located the suspects’ vehicle in the 5400 block of South State Street. Four officers responding to the scene were involved in a crash, police said.

Two of the injured officers were taken to the hospital in serious-to-critical condition, according to CFD. A third officer was listed in fair-to-serious condition, while a fourth self-transported to the hospital.

An additional three people were taken to an area hospital in fair-to-serious condition, fire officials said. Another victim was listed in good-to-fair condition, according to authorities. Four suspects were taken into custody, and two handguns were recovered from the scene, police said.

Illinois State Rep. Angie Guerrero-Cuellar released a statement on Saturday night, saying her husband was one of the Chicago police officers injured in the crash.

husband was one of the responding Chicago police officers injured in the traffic crash in the 5400 block of S. State

“We are surrounded by our family and family in blue,” she said in the statement, in part. “I ask that you keep everyone involved in your thoughts and prayers. This is the phone call no family ever wants to receive. Thank you for all the phone calls, text messages, prayers and support.”

The woman remained in custody as of Thursday afternoon. Earlier, Chicago police announced charges in the case but have since said that was done in error.

A spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorneys office said police had not submitted a case to the office for charging consideration as of Thursday afternoon.

Just after 5 p.m. Wednesday, police met with the pastor and the woman outside a West Side church, and she was placed into custody without incident, police said.

Officers responding to a disturbance at a Loop Taco Bell about 11:20 p.m. Tuesday were flagged down by someone who described a stabbing nearby in the first block of West Van Buren Street. There, they found Heaven Taylor lying in the street, suffering from stab wounds to her chest. Officers applied a “chest seal.”

Several witnesses were still on the scene where a large group had been fighting. At least one person identified the suspect by name and told police Taylor had been in an argument with her when the suspect took out a knife and stabbed Taylor twice in the chest before fleeing.

A man who worked at the same church as the pastor and helped facilitate the woman’s arrest told the Sun-Times she came to them after the incident, scared and looking for help.

“She was being attacked, and in all the videos that you see she was being attacked,” he said. “People were trying to portray it as if she was an aggressor, and she wasn’t. She was standing there until they came and attacked her, and it escalated.”

Police have not released any videos in connection to the case.

He said there had been previous altercations with this group of girls, and that the arrested woman was acting in self-defense.

After speaking with the woman and her mother, the man and fellow church leaders advised her to go to police and called in the Harrison Police District’s faith adviser. The church worker said he was confident police would be able to see from video footage that the suspect had been attacked.

Taylor, who was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, was pronounced dead early Wednesday.

Taylor’s mom, Chalesia Clayton, told the Sun-Times Wednesday that her daughter had just started her junior year at UCAN Academy on the South Side.

She was “a lovable person” and had a 2-year-old son, whom Clayton said she will now raise.

“I just want her remembered as a good momma and a good auntie and a good daughter,” Clayton said. “This right here just hurts.”

UCAN released a statement Wednesday sending condolences to “Heaven’s family and her beloved son.”

Taylor was the second child in less than a year that Clayton lost to violence in Chicago.

“I just buried my oldest son last year — her older brother — and now I’ve got to bury my daughter this year,” Clayton told the Sun–Times. “There’s just too much violence out here.”

The incident, caught on surveillance video, occurred at 2:55 p.m. Monday in the 2000 block of North Damen.

According to police, 33-year-old man was walking down the street when he was approached by two male suspects who began beating him. The suspects continued battering him while he lay on the ground, police said. They then stole allegedly stole the man’s personal items before fleeing the scene on foot.

Shocking surveillance video from the incident shows two males dressed in black on a street and outside an alley as cars drive by. One of the males appeared to be wearing a face and head covering, the video showed.

A different angle of the surveillance video showed the 33-year-old man, who appears to be eating a slice of pizza, walking down an alleyway as he passes the two suspects. One of the suspects then runs up to the victim and begins beating him from the side until the man falls into a fence.

The video then shows the second suspect running up and attempting to grab the victim’s backpack as the first suspect continues to punch and kick the man.

Both suspects continue to kick and punch the man, who is then dragged by them to the other side of the alley and up against garbage cans.

The victim, who remained on the ground, can be heard screaming.

One of the suspects is seen stomping on the victim before both walk off with the man’s backpack.

Debris, clothing and shoes from the victim remained scattered across the alley.

In total, the video shows the encounter and attack lasting nearly two minutes.

Police initially said there were no injuries reported. However, a later update from police said the victim was transported to a nearby hospital and last listed in stable condition.

According to police, no one was in custody.

The attack comes amid a string of both armed and violent robberies across neighborhoods in Chicago, including on college campuses as well as in Lincoln Park, Garfield Park, Irving Park, downtown and more. In one instance, AT&T employees at a store near Bucktown were tied up with zip ties and held at gunpoint before suspects made off with cell phone and other electronics.

A teenage girl is in critical condition after she was shot in the head in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood early Tuesday, police said.

The girl, 16, was sitting in the passenger seat of a car in a gas station parking lot in the 4200 block of West 26th Street when someone in a black SUV fired shots around 1:55 a.m., according to Chicago police.

The girl was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where she was in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head.

No one is in custody and detectives are investigating.

Chicago Police have not said whether the incidents were connected. However, in each of the incidents, between two and three male suspects armed with guns demand property and flee in an SUV, police reports showed.

The first incident occurred at 7:57 p.m. inside of an AT&T store in the 1700 block of West Fullerton near the Bucktown neighborhood. According to police, two suspects armed with guns entered the store and proceeded to tie up employees’ hands with zip ties. The suspects then took cell phones and other electronic items from the store before fleeing the scene in a white SUV, according to police.

At 12:15 a.m. in the 3000 block of West Carroll in Garfield Park, a 23-year-old male was walking on the sidewalk when three males excited a white SUV and stole his backpack and wallet at gunpoint. A similar incident occurred shortly afterwards, at 12:53 a.m. in the 400 block of North Aberdeen in the West Loop, when three armed males exited a white SUV and robbed a 25-year-old man, police said.

Neither of the victims were injured, police said.

Several hours later, at 2:10 a.m. in the 1100 block of West Van Buren, police said a 33-year-old man was walking on the sidewalk when three people exited a dark-colored SUV and stole his wallet and cell phone at gunpoint.

At 2:42 a.m. in the 3500 block of North Kimball in Irving Park, a man was in the parking lot of a retail store when two people exited a black SUV and took his backpack and wallet at gunpoint, police said.

Although police said none of the victims in the overnight instances were injured, the armed robberies come following a rash of violent robberies across the city, including one that occurred Monday afternoon in broad daylight in the Bucktown neighborhood.

According to police, at 2:55 p.m. a man, 33, was walking in the 2000 block of North Damen when when unknown suspects quickly approached from behind and began battering the victim

Surveillance video from the attack shows two people continuing to violently beat the victim on the ground.

The suspects can then be seen taking the victims personal belongings before fleeing the scene on foot.

According to police, no injuries were reported, and no one was in custody.

The robberies happened between 11 p.m. Sunday and 12 a.m. Monday in Lincoln Park, West Town and Old Town, authorities said. In most of the incidents, people were walking on a sidewalk when an SUV pulled up and up to four men exited the vehicle with guns.

The men demanded things like phones, wallets and purses, according to police reports.

One victim told NBC Chicago she was walking home from a concert with her boyfriend after the pair missed their bus when she saw an SUV pull up next to them.

“A white SUV was going extremely quickly westbound and they ended up going into the wrong lane and I knew exactly what was going to happen,” the woman said. “Three guys got out, at least one or two had guns, and I had a purse they took, told my boyfriend to get down … we complied. We didn’t fight or try to run.”

No injuries have been associated with the robberies so far, but they come after a string of similar crimes over the weekend, including on the DePaul University campus.

Police have not yet said if the robberies are connected.

Here’s a look at the series of robberies from overnight:

• 11 p.m. in the 900 block of West Armitage: A 42-year-old woman was walking on the sidewalk when four males exited a white SUV and took her purse at gunpoint, authorities said.
• 11:15 p.m. in the 1700 block of West Hubbard: A 31-year-old man was walking on the sidewalk when three males exited a white SUV and took his cell phone and wallet at gunpoint, police said.
• 11:20 p.m. in the 600 block of West Armitage: A 56-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman were robbed at gunpoint while walking on the sidewalk. Police said four males exited a white SUV and took their phones and a wallet. The pair was not injured, police said.
• 11:40 p.m. in the 1400 block of North Halsted: A 27-year-old woman was walking on the sidewalk when police said four males exited a white SUV and took her purse at gunpoint.

In total, at least 12 pedestrians were robbed in nine incidents, police said. In each of the incidents, between three and six suspects, some of whom brandish a gun, flee the scene in a dark-colored sedan.

In some of the incidents, victims said they were attacked.

The first incident occurred at approximately 12:50 a.m., in the 1900 block of West Wolfram in West Lakeview. According to police, a man, 78, was walking outside when he was approached by six male suspects. The suspect demanded the victim’s personal belongings and the victim complied, police said. The suspects then struck the man before fleeing the scene in a dark-colored sedan, police said.

The victim was transported to a nearby hospital in good condition, police said.

Ten minutes later, three more attacks took place blocks away, across Lakeview and Lincoln Park, according to police.

In those instances, which took place in the 4000 block of North Lincoln Avenue, the 2800 block of North Lincoln Avenue and the 700 block of West Belmont Avenue, between two and five suspects, some of whom were armed with handguns, approached victims ranging in age from 19 to 66, and demanded personal property. In two of the instances, victims were struck by the suspects before they fled.

Three more similar armed robberies occurred between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. police said, in the 300 block of West Webster, the 1600 block of West Wilson and the 3000 block of North Clark, police said. The victims in those incidents range in age from 25 to 36, with several victims reported being struck in the head by the suspects.

At approximately 1:52 a.m., in the 800 block of South Michigan Avenue in front of the Le Méridien Essex Hotel, a 42-year-old male valet parking attendant said he was walking outside when he was approached by four male suspects, two of which were armed with handguns. The suspects demanded the victim’s property and struck the man before fleeing the scene in a dark-colored sedan, police said.

Authorities have not commented on whether the robberies are connected. Detectives are investigating, police said.

In at least two of the incidents, the suspects were seen exiting a white KIA SUV before breaking and entering the retail stores, authorities said.

The first incident took place at approximately 12:57 a.m. in the 600 block of West Roosevelt in the South Loop According to officials, two suspects wearing hoodies exited a white KIA SUV and shattered the glass front door of a dispensary. After gaining entry to the shop, the suspects fled with unknown merchandise, police said.

The second incident occurred at 1:30 a.m. in Logan Square, at the Vape Up Smoke Shop near the 2400 block of North Milwaukee Ave. Surveillance footage there captured three suspects wearing hoodies also exiting a white KIA SUV before shattering the glass front door of a retail smoke shop. According to officials, the suspects gained entry and fled the scene with a safe and a cash drawer.

The third incident took place at 3 a.m. in the 4800 block of West Foster Avenue near North Mayfair. According to police, two suspects shattered the glass front door of a retail smoke shop. After gaining entry, the suspects fled with a cash drawer and other unknown merchandise.

No one was in custody in any of the three incidents and detectives are investigating, police said.

A man was walking on the sidewalk in the 600 block of North State Street when someone fired shots from a silver Dodge truck around 2:45 a.m., police said. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition.

The shooting happened about a block from the Medinah Temple, where the temporary casino opened on Saturday. In a statement, Bally’s said, “We are confident this situation was unrelated to our temporary venue… “We hold the highest standards in providing security and monitoring the casino’s perimeter.”

The casino is located in the Near North police district, where shootings are down 55% from last year. Neighborhood groups and local alderman previously voiced concerns about the facility, saying it could bring increased crime and more traffic issues to the area.

The man was walking on the sidewalk in the 600 block of North State Street when someone fired shots from a silver Dodge truck around 2:45 a.m., police said.

The man was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition.

The shooting happened about a block from the Medinah Temple, where Bally’s opened a temporary casino Saturday. The casino is open from 8 a.m. to 4 a.m.

The casino is located in the Near North police district, where shootings are down 55% from last year.

According to police, the pair first accosted a 63-year-old woman who was walking on a sidewalk about 11:35 p.m. in the 2100 block of West Grace Street.

Two people armed with rifles got out of a white sedan and took her belongings, then fled the area, police said.

About five minutes later, the driver of a white sedan approached a 42-year-old man in the 3400 block of North Leavitt Street, where two people got out of the car with rifles and stole the items the man was carrying, police said. 

The suspects then stole from a 61-year-old man who was walking in the 1700 block of West Berteau Avenue about two minutes later, according to police.

Shortly after 11:50 p.m., the same white sedan pulled up in the 1800 block of West Roscoe Street, where a woman, 32, and a 43-year-old man were standing on a sidewalk, police said.

Two people armed with a handgun and rifle got out of the car and took their belongings, then got back in the car and fled west on Roscoe Street, police said.

Around 2:45 a.m. Friday, someone in a white sedan drove up to a 67-year-old man in the 900 block of West Dakin Street and two people got out, implied they had a weapon and stole from the man, police said.

Officers nearby saw the white sedan a few minutes later and placed the suspects into custody, police said. They also recovered items belonging to the 67-year-old man.

No injuries were reported in any of the incidents.

At approximately 11:45 p.m., police responded to a call of multiple people shot in the 100 block of West Division Street, according to Chicago police.

A man, 28, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition; A woman, 22, was struck once in the leg and taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition; A man, 42, was shot in the leg and taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition; A man 24, was struck on the thigh and taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.

Police said further investigation revealed that a man driving a black sedan fired shots at the group and fled the scene.

No one was in custody.

Editor’s Note: Due to incorrect information from a wire service, the time of the incident has been corrected to approximately 11:45 p.m.

Police said the teen, identified as Nakari Campbell, was crossing the street just before 10:30 p.m. Friday at Ashland and Division when a bright red 2008 Mercedes Benz hit her and fled at a high speed down Division.

The teen was hospitalized at John H. Stroger Jr. Medical Center of Cook County in critical condition. She had broken bones and head trauma, her family said.

But despite having a photo of the vehicle involved and the license plate number, no arrest has been made in the case, police said, adding that it remains an “ongoing investigation.”

Campbell’s family pleaded with the person responsible to turn themselves in and for police to solve the crime.

“What we are asking you all to do is: one, we need to put the pressure on the police department because they could track that plate to every single plate reader and red light camera in the city to find out where that car went,” said the family’s attorney Cierra Norris.

“Who was in your car? Just tell the truth. Man up, just tell the truth. Just simple as that,” said community activist Andrew Holmes.

The Illinois license plate of the vehicle involved was DC60012.

Police said the vehicle was a Mercedes Benz C35 with dark-colored rims, a sunroof and tinted windows.

Authorities said damage is expected at or near the grille portion of the vehicle.

Anyone who might have information on the case is being asked to call the Major Accident Investigation unit at (312) 745 – 4521 or anonymous tips can be submitted via cpdtip.com.

The first robbery occurred after 12:30 a.m. in the 1500 block of North Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park, police said. Three armed robbers stepped out of a silver sedan and approached a 53-year-old man, demanding his cell phone and wallet at gunpoint before fleeing, according to Chicago police.

Thirty minutes later, in the 2000 block of West Superior Street, three armed robbers approached a 30-year-old woman riding a bike and robbed her of her belongings, police said.

The woman suffered a minor injury, police said.

At least three more robberies occurred nearby just minutes apart, police said. The robbers were in a silver sedan in each attack.

The robberies occurred:

• About 1:05 a.m. in the 1900 block of West Chicago Avenue
• About 1:49 a.m. in the 3000 block of West Armitage Avenue
• About 1:58 a.m. in the 3000 block of West Armitage Avenue

No one was in custody.

According to officials, at approximately 2:46 a.m., police responded to a person shot in the 1400 block of W. Madison. Upon arrival, police found a 49-year-old male inside a vehicle with a gunshot wound to the chest, authorities said.

The man was transported to a nearby hospital in fair condition.

According to officials, the man told police he was shot by someone on foot. The victim attempted to flee the scene in a vehicle, police said, but lost control and struck a tree.

No one was in custody.

This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

The first incident occurred at approximately 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 3200 block of North Kildare, when a 52-year-old mail-carrier was shot during an attempted robbery, according to police.

According to officials, two people approached the carrier, and one of them pulled out a gun and fired, striking the carrier in the leg. He was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition.

Just fifteen minutes later, around 3:45 p.m., another carrier was robbed at gunpoint in the 1800 block of North Sawyer in Logan Square. The postal service said the two robberies may be related and released a description of one of the suspects and the car used.

The car was described as a stolen white Kia sedan with the Illinois license plate BF73931. One suspect was described as wearing a light gray hooded sweatshirt, gray pants with “Reebok” wrapped around the left pant leg, Jordan sneakers with a blue crown emblem and blue stripes, and a backwards blue cap with stickers on the cap’s orange bill.

One day later, a mail carrier was robbed in Berwyn, in the 1400 block of Homes Avenue.

Two suspects, one armed with a handgun, robbed a letter-carrier and stole their bag, according to officials.

The suspects fled the scene in a silver Toyota Highlander with Illinois license plate CS86136, according to officials. The vehicle had previously been reported stolen from Chicago.

The suspects are still at-large, and the letter-carrier was unharmed in the incident, officials said.

$50,000 rewards have been offered in connection with both Tuesdays and Wednesdays cases, the United States Postal Service said. Anyone with information can call the postal service at (877) 876-2455.

A report from the Chicago Sun Time said robberies of mail carriers have tripled in the last three years.

Elise Foster, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers branch in Chicago, said the U.S. Postal Service hasn’t done enough to address it.

Criminals target letter carriers for their master keys that unlock mailboxes throughout a ZIP code. With those keys, they can steal mail, allowing them to wash and rewrite checks, or sell the keys to other criminals.

In June, a postal worker was robbed at gunpoint while delivering mail in the Beverly neighborhood.

On Monday, thieves used a saw to cut open a public mailbox outside a post office in south suburban Orland Park. Police urged anyone who used the mailbox at 9500 West 144th Place to monitor their accounts for unusual activity.

According to officials, the incident took place just after 10 p.m. in the 400 block of West 72nd Street. As the girls gathered with a group of kids outside, at least one person approached the group and opened fire, police said.

One girl, 16, suffered a gunshot wound to the back and was taken to a nearby hospital where she later died, police said.

Another girl, 15, suffered a graze wound the left arm and was taken to nearby hospital where she was listed in good condition, police said.

No one was in custody, police said.

According to Chicago’s Violence Reduction Dashboard, deadly shootings among teens are children were up 16 percent compared to 2022, and mass shootings where teens and kids are victims were up 20 percent.

David Cobb, 37, was charged with first-degree murder and was expected to appear in court Thursday, according to Kellie Bartoli, a spokesperson for Chicago police.

The body of a 46-year-old woman was found on the floor of Cobb’s kitchen around 9 p.m. Monday after he called called 911 and, “speaking quietly and despondently,” told dispatchers he was having a “bad day,” police said.

When Cobb answered the door of his third-floor apartment, responding officers saw blood on his hands, according to a police report.

The woman, who has not been identified yet, died of multiple sharp force injuries, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Police said she was found on the kitchen floor and was dead on the scene.

The boy, possibly along with others, robbed 11 people within 45 minutes, according to Chicago police.

About 1:50 a.m., he is suspected of robbing a 29-year-old man in the 1100 block of West Taylor Street; then five minutes later he allegedly stole belongings from a woman, 38, and a 45-year-old man a few blocks away in the 1100 block of South Canal Street, police said.

About five minutes after that, he allegedly robbed two more people — a 36-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man — in the 700 block of West Taylor Street, police said.

Four more robberies happened between 2:20 a.m. and 2:35 a.m. Those happened at the following locations, according to police:

• 2400 block of South Canal Street
• 2500 block of South Halsted Street
• 1100 block of West Chicago Avenue
• 1200 block of North Milwaukee Avenue

The boy was arrested several hours later and was charged with 12 felony counts of armed robbery. He also faces one misdemeanor count each of battery and criminal trespass to a vehicle.

No injuries were reported.

The incident took place just before 10:30 p.m. in the 1900 block of North Milwaukee Avenue, according to officials. Photos and video from the scene show a large police presence outside Bucktown Food & Liquor, located at 1950 N. Milwaukee Ave.

According to Chicago police, a male, 26, was inside the business when three suspects armed with guns entered the building and demanded the victim’s property. One of the suspects then shot the victim once in the abdomen, police said.

The victim was later transported to a nearby hospital critical condition, police said.

According to officials, five additional victims had their property taken but were not injured.

1st Ward Ald. Daniel La Spata issued the following statement on Friday:

“I’m shocked and angered by the shooting that happened at Bucktown Food & Liquor. They have always been good neighbors to myself, our office, and our community. My thoughts and prayers are with the victim for a full recovery. We will work with the 14th District to our best ability to ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice,” the statement read.

No one is in custody and detectives are investigating, police said.

Thomas William Martel was charged with four counts of aggravated cruelty to animals and two counts of animal torture, Chicago police said.

Martel is accused of killing two cats by drowning and squeezing them and mutilating a third cat, according to police reports.

Another cat was found in a plastic bag in Martel’s apartment, where a witness said the cat had been microwaved, according to the report.

A police report lists Martel’s residence in Wicker Park, but court records and police say he lives in Northbrook.

Martel turned himself in Monday, according to police reports. His bail was set at $75,000, according to court documents. Martel would have to post $7,500 in order to be released.

His next court date was scheduled for July 17.

According to Chicago police, at 5:30 a.m. Friday, a male, 64, was discovered near Clarendon Park in the 4400 block of North Marine Drive with stab wounds to the head and neck. The man was pronounced dead on the scene, police said.

No one was in custody, and circumstances surrounding the stabbing remain under investigation, police said.

This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

About 2:30 a.m., an 18-year-old man told police two people got out of a black Jeep and approached as he was getting into his black Honda Civic in the 3200 Block of North Ashland, police said.

One of them pointed a gun at the man and demanded his keys. The man handed them over and they fled in his Civic as the Jeep followed, police said.

About 3:45 a.m., three people jumped out of a black vehicle and confronted a man and a woman as they were parking their red Dodge Charger in the 4000 block of North Ashland Avenue, police said.

One of them pointed a gun at them, demanded their keys and sped away in the Charger, as the other two trailed behind in the black vehicle, police said.

Nobody was hurt in either attack. No arrests have been reported.

According to the Chicago Fire Department, officials were called around 5 a.m. to the area of 56th and Ada on the city’s southwest side. Four people were hurt and transported to nearby hospitals, officials said.

At least three of those victims had been stuck by gunfire, authorities said.

Photos and video from the scene show a heavy police presence in the area, with more than a dozen squad cars in the area, with debris strewn across the street and and yellow police tape blocking off the intersection.

Some CTA buses were detoured due to the investigation.

No further details were provided.

The shooting follows violent holiday weekend in Chicago that saw at least 33 injured and 5 dead from gunfire.

This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

The man was in the 1300 block of West Taylor Street when someone approached on foot and shot him just before 9 p.m., according to Chicago police.

The ride share driver took the man to Rush University Medical Center, where he died, police said.

No one was in custody.

According to court documents, Condelarious Garcia has never been issued a driver’s license and has cases with Cook County courts dating back to 2018.

Garcia faces four felony counts of aggravated reckless driving and one misdemeanor count of driving with a suspended license.

Twice before, Garcia had been apprehended for driving without a driver’s license.

Additionally, Garcia was issued three other citations for failure to reduce speed, operating an uninsured vehicle and expired registration.

Garcia’s mother, Catina Garcia, spoke with NBC Chicago and said that her son is not a monster.

“He did not do this intentionally, like wake up and say, ‘I’m doing this’,” Catina Garcia told NBC Chicago.

Garcia added that she wanted to “apologize to all the families of all the victims.”

According to Chicago police, the incident took place at 6:22 p.m. in the 300 block of West 35th Street, just as fans were entering the game.

Charles Janczy, one of the victims and a diehard White Sox fan, shared his frightening account in an exclusive interview with NBC Chicago.

“I crossed the street, and next thing I know, I get hit by a car,” Janczy told NBC Chicago.

Janczy said he never remembered seeing a car, and had flown into the vehicle’s sunroof headfirst before he could process what had happened.

“I could hear the occupants of the car talking amongst themselves a little bit about the cops all over them. One of them asked me a couple of times I think if I was alright,” Janczy said.

Illinois State Police eventually executed a PIT maneuver to halt the suspect’s vehicle.

Janczy, an Evanston native and White Sox season ticket holder, could be released from the hospital as early as tomorrow as he recovers from fractured ribs, bruising and swelling.

“I think in a way going through the sunroof thing might have actually been a blessing, because I might have gotten thrown off the car and hit my head,” Janczy told NBC Chicago.

Two other victims, a 51-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man, both of whom were hit by the vehicle, were taken to area hospitals in critical condition, police said.

One of those victims suffered a traumatic brain injury and has been unresponsive since the incident.

A 24-year-old man was also struck, and was transported in fair condition.

“If I could take the place of all of the victims, I would make this right so that the victims could live their lives with their families,” Catina Garcia told NBC Chicago.

According to officials, the driver fled the scene and crashed on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 45th Street. The male driver and three other males in the car, ranging in age from 20 to 25, were taken to a nearby hospital in fair condition, where they remain in police custody, Chicago Police Department Deputy Chief Fred Melean said during a press conference Tuesday.

“It’s highly unusual for how many Sox games have gone on that something like this has occurred,” Melean said, adding that the pedestrians who were struck were on their way to the game.

Melean also said during the press concurrence there was no reason to believe that the incident was targeted, and said police were investigating if the vehicle was stolen.

Separate juries on Wednesday found Devin Barron and Jaylen Saulsberry guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting of retired-Lt. Dwain Williams, who Cook County prosecutors said was confronted at gunpoint by a carjacking crew in December 2020 as he left a gourmet popcorn shop.

The jury in Barron’s trial returned their verdict about five hours after deliberations began and immediately after the jury in Saulsberry’s trial retired to begin their own discussions.

It took less than two hours for the second panel to reach its decision.

Members of Williams’ family wore matching red outfits for the final day of the trial.

“He was a firefighter, so everything was red,” his daughters said as they recalled their father’s favorite color. “We started the trial wearing red and we ended in red.”

When their trials began last week, there were three defendants and three separate juries.

But in a surprise on Tuesday, the third co-defendant, Dwain Johnson, took the stand to testify against Barron and Saulsberry after Johnson accepted a plea offer from the state’s attorney’s office mid-trial that saw his murder charge reduced.

Johnson, 20, pleaded guilty to a count of aggravated battery with a firearm, according to court records. Prosecutors said they would seek the maximum 30-year sentence against him.

A fourth defendant, a teenage boy who was 15 at the time of Williams’ death, had his case adjudicated in juvenile court and also testified against Barron and Saulsberry. Prosecutors said he was back in school and had stayed out of trouble.

All four were part of a carjacking crew that targeted Williams’ Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk SUV after they spotted it while driving.

With the 15-year-old behind the wheel of a stolen Ford Fusion sedan, the crew trailed Williams until he parked outside Let’s Get Poppin’ at 11758 S. Western Ave. and then waited for Williams to return.

Barron and Saulsberry got out of the stolen Ford with guns drawn and confronted Williams as he carried a package of popcorn to his Jeep.

Williams, a concealed-carry holder, drew his own gun and exchanged fire with the crew before they fled. Williams was shot in the abdomen and died a short time later.

Investigators were able to track the group using cellphone data and surveillance footage.

DNA evidence implicating Saulsberry was recovered from a shoe that one of the gunmen left behind as he fled, and a fingerprint on a granola bar found in the back seat of the Ford when it was recovered in Tinley Park matched Barron’s, prosecutors said.

Attorneys for both defendants spent much of their closing arguments Wednesday assailing the integrity and reliability of testimony by the teenager and Johnson.

“This was not some wide-eyed kid,” Barron’s attorney, David Gaeger, said to jurors about the 15-year-old, but a “sophisticated” criminal. During a police interrogation, Gaeger said the teen’s mother pressured her son into telling the detectives information they wanted to hear to “save himself.”

Saulsberry’s attorney, David Sotomayor, called the teenager a “druggie” who testified he took the drug ecstasy regularly.

Gaeger said Johnson’s testimony lacked a shred of credibility, arguing prosecutors “went to the person they had the strongest case against and offered him a deal” to testify against the others.

“His motive was to get the deal and get out of here as quick as he can,” Sotomayor agreed.

Prosecutors countered that both the teenager and Johnson had “done the right thing” in the end and that it took guts for them to take the stand.

“It doesn’t make them snitches; it makes them men,” an assistant state’s attorney said.

Williams’ family said they were consulted by the state’s attorney’s office on the decision to offer a plea deal mid-trial to Johnson, and said they believed it helped secure the additional two guilty verdicts and bring them justice.

“We wanted the shooters,” daughter Tarmarcea Humphrey said.

She said the family took no consolation in the fact that all three young men would spend decades in prison, saying they were the type of at-risk youth that their father had gone out of his way to coach and mentor.

They said they also hoped Williams would be remembered for his life of service, particularly for his work as a city firefighter who would “rush into a burning building to save anyone.”

“We don’t want the last 30 minutes of his life to define him,” his daughter Kenya Heste

Condelarious Garcia, 20, of Chicago, has been charged with with four felony counts of aggravated reckless driving and one misdemeanor count of driving with a suspended license, Chicago police said. Garcia was also issued three citations for failure to reduce speed, operating an uninsured vehicle and expired registration.

According to Chicago police, the incident took place at 6:22 p.m. in the 300 block of West 35th Street, as fans were entering the game.

Officials say Garcia, who was behind the wheel of a silver sedan and heading eastbound on 35th Street, struck four pedestrians before fleeing the scene.

One of those hit was die-hard White Sox fan Charles Janczy, 64. Janczy was flung over the car and sent through the vehicle’s sunroof as it fled onto the Dan Ryan Expressway, police said.

“I crossed the street, and next thing I know, I get hit by a car,” Janczy told NBC Chicago, from his hospital bed.

Janczy said he never remembered seeing a car, and had flown into the vehicle’s sunroof headfirst before he could process what had happened.

“I could hear the occupants of the car talking amongst themselves a little bit about the cops all over them. One of them asked me a couple of times I think if I was alright,” Janczy said.

Officials say Janczy, an Evanston native and White Sox season ticket holder, could be released from the hospital as early as Thursday as he recovers from fractured ribs, bruising and swelling.

“I think in a way going through the sunroof thing might have actually been a blessing, because I might have gotten thrown off the car and hit my head,” Janczy said.

Two other victims, a 51-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man, both of whom were hit by the vehicle, were taken to area hospitals in critical condition, police said.

A 24-year-old man was also struck, and was transported in fair condition.

After fleeing the scene, Garcia eventually crashed the vehicle on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 45th Street. Three other males in the car, ranging in age from 20 to 25, were taken to a nearby hospital in fair condition, where they remain in police custody, Chicago Police Department Deputy Chief Fred Melean said during a press conference Tuesday.

“It’s highly unusual for how many Sox games have gone on that something like this has occurred,” Melean said, adding that the pedestrians who were struck were on their way to the game.

Melean also said during the press concurrence there was no reason to believe that the incident was targeted, and said police were investigating if the vehicle was stolen.

According to police, 20-year-old Condelarious Garcia of the 4200 block of South Union Avenue has been charged with four felony counts of aggravated reckless driving and one misdemeanor count of driving with a suspended license.

Garcia was issued three other citations for failure to reduce speed, operating an uninsured vehicle and expired registration.

According to Chicago police, the incident took place at 6:22 p.m. in the 300 block of West 35th Street, as fans were entering the game.

Charles Janczy, one of the victims and a diehard White Sox fan, shared his frightening account in an exclusive interview with NBC Chicago.

“I crossed the street, and next thing I know, I get hit by a car,” Janczy told NBC Chicago.

Janczy said he never remembered seeing a car, and had flown into the vehicle’s sunroof headfirst before he could process what had happened.

“I could hear the occupants of the car talking amongst themselves a little bit about the cops all over them. One of them asked me a couple of times I think if I was alright,” Janczy said.

Illinois State Police eventually executed a PIT maneuver to halt the suspect’s vehicle.

Janczy, an Evanston native and White Sox season ticket holder, could be released from the hospital as early as tomorrow as he recovers from fractured ribs, bruising and swelling.

“I think in a way going through the sunroof thing might have actually been a blessing, because I might have gotten thrown off the car and hit my head,” Janczy told NBC Chicago.

Two other victims, a 51-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man, both of whom were hit by the vehicle, were taken to area hospitals in critical condition, police said.

A 24-year-old man was also struck, and was transported in fair condition.

According to officials, the driver fled the scene and crashed on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 45th Street. The male driver and three other males in the car, ranging in age from 20 to 25, were taken to a nearby hospital in fair condition, where they remain in police custody, Chicago Police Department Deputy Chief Fred Melean said during a press conference Tuesday.

“It’s highly unusual for how many Sox games have gone on that something like this has occurred,” Melean said, adding that the pedestrians who were struck were on their way to the game.

Melean also said during the press concurrence there was no reason to believe that the incident was targeted, and said police were investigating if the vehicle was stolen.

No further details about investigation were immediately provided. This story will be updated as more information becomes available.