CHICAGO — At the least 44 folks have been shot, eight fatally, since Friday night throughout Chicago, police mentioned.

A 14-year-old boy was critically wounded in a drive-by taking pictures Sunday evening in Hyde Park.

About 8:38 p.m., he was standing exterior within the 9400-block of South College Avenue when somebody in a automobile driving by fired gunshots, Chicago police mentioned.

The boy was shot within the groin, police mentioned. He was transported to Comer Youngsters’s Hospital, the place he’s listed in essential situation.

No arrests had been reported. Space detectives are investigating.

A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot Sunday afternoon within the Golden Gate neighborhood on the South Facet, blocks away from the place one other teen was shot about 45 minutes earlier.

The 16-year-old was close to a sidewalk about 4:05 p.m. within the 13100-block of South St. Lawrence Avenue when he was shot within the chest, Chicago police mentioned.

He was taken to the College of Chicago Medical Middle, the place he died, police mentioned.

Nobody was in custody. Space detectives are investigating.

About 45 minutes earlier, a 17-year-old boy was shot about three blocks away. About 3:20 p.m., the teenager was within the 13200-block of South Langley Avenue when he was shot within the leg, police mentioned. He was taken to a hospital in good situation.

5 folks had been shot, one fatally on town’s South Facet in a single day Sunday, Chicago police mentioned. The taking pictures occurred within the Gresham neighborhood at about 12:20 a.m., police mentioned. Officers responded to a name of a number of photographs fired within the 1800 block of West 78th Avenue, police mentioned. A 19-year-old girl shot thrice and died from her accidents, CPD mentioned. The health worker’s workplace recognized her as Tacara Tunstall. One other sufferer, a 17-year-old lady, is in severe situation at Christ Medical Middle in Oak Garden with a gunshot wound to the again, police mentioned. Three others, together with a 17-year-old boy, had been shot and brought to close by hospitals, police mentioned. They’re listed in honest situation. Two of them had been shot within the arm and the opposite within the torso. Different particulars surrounding the taking pictures are nonetheless unclear, however police imagine the offender could have been taking pictures from a automobile. Nobody has been arrested as Space Two detectives attempt to type by the taking pictures.

Hours later, a person was shot to loss of life early Sunday within the Humboldt Park neighborhood. The person, 32, was arguing with somebody about 3:30 a.m. within the 1100 block of North Ridgeway Avenue when he was shot a number of instances, Chicago police mentioned. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, the place he later died, police mentioned. The gunman fled the scene.

In nonfatal shootings Sunday, a 17-year-old boy was critically wounded after being shot within the head whereas driving in Brighton Park. About 3:30 a.m., the boy was heading north within the 4300 block of South Western Boulevard when he heard gunfire and felt ache, Chicago police mentioned. He was transported to Stroger Hospital, the place he was listed in essential situation, police mentioned. Nobody was in custody.

About an hour earlier, two males had been wounded, one among them critically, in a taking pictures in Albany Park. They had been exterior about 2:30 a.m. within the 3100 block of West Montrose Avenue after they heard a number of gunshots and felt ache, Chicago police mentioned. The older man, 35, suffered a gunshot wound within the thigh and was transported to Illinois Masonic Medical Middle, the place he was listed in severe situation, police mentioned. The youthful man, 32, was struck within the foot and brought to the identical hospital in good situation, police mentioned. Nobody was in custody. Detectives are investigating.

SATURDAY

Early Saturday, a person was discovered shot to loss of life in North Lawndale. The person, 19, was positioned with a gunshot wound to the chest about 5:17 a.m. exterior within the 3900 block of West Fillmore Avenue, the place he was pronounced useless, police mentioned. No arrests had been reported.

Lower than an hour later, a person was killed and one other was wounded in a taking pictures Saturday morning in Burnside on the South Facet. A 28-year-old man was strolling with one other man about 6:05 a.m. within the 9400 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue when an individual approached them and fired gunshots, Chicago police mentioned. The 28-year-old was shot within the left arm and transported to the College of Chicago Medical Middle, the place he died, police mentioned. The opposite man, whose age is unknown, was grazed on the left facet of his head and refused medical care on scene, police mentioned. No arrests had been reported. Space Two detectives are investigating.

At about 5:05 a.m. Saturday, a lady was shot inside a automobile on the Close to North Facet. The girl, 19, was within the 100 block of West Ohio Avenue when she heard gunshots and felt ache, police mentioned. She was shot within the again and transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in secure situation. Nobody was arrested.

Hours later, a teen boy was shot throughout an tried theft Saturday night in Lawndale on the West Facet. About 6 p.m., the boy, 17, was strolling exterior when one other male approached him close to an alley within the 1100 block of South Pulaski Street and demanded his belongings, Chicago police mentioned. The boy mentioned he didn’t have any belongings on him and the opposite male shot him within the leg and fled the scene, police mentioned. The boy was taken to Stroger Hospital in good situation, police mentioned. There was nobody in custody.

FRIDAY

Marquise Pryor, who performed basketball at Orr and was a distinguished determine within the 2018 Fox Sports activities documentary “Shot within the Darkish,” was shot and killed on Friday.

“He had just lately opened up a neighborhood retailer and a salon on 87th,” former Orr assistant coach Jimalle Ridley mentioned. “He had invested lots in that and had simply employed some folks final week.”

Officers responded about 10:45 p.m. to a name of a taking pictures on the Dan Ryan Woods Forest Protect and located Pryor, 27, shot a number of instances, in line with an announcement from the Cook dinner County sheriff’s workplace.

“I went down there final evening to the scene,” Orr basketball coach Lou Adams mentioned. “His mother and cousin referred to as me. He was useless proper on the spot.”

Adams has heard a number of tales about what occurred however would not have any concrete info on the incident.

“He was a superb particular person inside,” Adams mentioned. “He needed one thing out of life and it took a very long time to get to the place he needed however he lastly received there. And now it is gone.”

Daniel Poneman, now an NBA agent, was a producer on the documentary in 2018 and a buddy of Pryor.

“(Marquise) was a mild large with lots of love in his coronary heart,” Poneman mentioned.

Adams, who lives in Englewood, drove Pryor to high school on the West Facet each day again when he was in highschool.

“He got here and helped begin this system up at Orr with me,” Adams mentioned. “I would been speaking to him each day currently. He got here by the college twice final week to see me.”

Pryor missed his senior season at Orr in 2012 after he was arrested for gun possession. He performed membership basketball within the spring of 2012 and finally performed at Lee Junior Faculty in Texas in 2014.

The Orr neighborhood misplaced one other former participant, Norvell Meadows, to gun violence just lately.

“It is simply trauma,” Ridley mentioned. “Everyone seems to be in trauma proper now. (Pryor) was only a one that had turned down the precise path from the place he got here from. There had been some tragedy however he was on his strategy to triumph. His story was distinctive nevertheless it ended like so many younger males in Chicago, with mindless violence.”

The sheriff’s workplace requested anybody with info to name detectives at 708-865-4896.

A 38-year-old man was driving westbound about 10:40 p.m. Friday within the 500 block of West ninety fifth Avenue in Washington Heights when a person opened gunfire from a sidewalk, Chicago police mentioned. The driving force was shot a number of instances and transported to Christ Hospital, the place he died. No arrests had been reported.

A couple of half-hour later, round 11:10 p.m. Friday, a 62-year-old man was fatally shot in Englewood. He was in a automobile at a cease signal within the 800 block of West 71st Avenue when he was shot within the head, police mentioned. He was taken to the College of Chicago Medical Middle, the place he was pronounced useless. Nobody was in custody.

In non-fatal assaults, a teenage lady and two different folks had been injured in a taking pictures about 9 p.m. Friday in East Garfield Park. The 17-year-old, a 20-year-old girl and a person, 21, had been within the 3300 block of West Harrison Avenue when somebody inside a black automobile fired photographs, police mentioned. The teenager was shot within the leg and brought to Mount Sinai Hospital in essential situation. The girl was struck within the face and the person suffered a gunshot wound to the physique. Each had been transported to the identical hospital in honest situation. No arrests had been made.

Final weekend, not less than 58 folks had been shot in Chicago, eight of them fatally.

ABC7 Chicago contributed to this report.

(Source: Solar-Instances Media Wire – Copyright Chicago Solar-Instances 2021.)