Five people were killed and nine more were wounded Thursday in shootings across Chicago.
A 16-year-old boy was killed Thursday morning in Ashburn on the Southwest Side by a man who said he was firing back at another shooter.
The boy was a passenger in a vehicle when someone shot him in the head about 10:35 a.m. in the 3900 block of West 83rd Street, Chicago police said. A female driver took him to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died.
A 45-year-old concealed-carry holder who was seated in another vehicle claims that someone fired at him first, but detectives are working to verify those allegations, police said. He was arrested.
Three people were shot to death in less than two hours Thursday evening.
The latest fatal shooting happened about 10:20 p.m. in the South Loop.
Thursday’s shootings follow a Wednesday in which nine people were shot, three of them fatally, in Chicago.
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