An individual opened hearth throughout a verbal dispute early Friday in downtown Chicago, killing two males and wounding three different individuals, police stated.
The 5 who have been shot have been leaving a enterprise about 1:45 am when the particular person they have been in a dispute with opened hearth with a handgun, police stated in a press release.
Two males of their 20s have been pronounced useless at a hospital, police stated, and two different males have been wounded together with a fifth particular person. The wounded have been reported in good situation.
No one has been arrested, police stated, and particulars concerning the suspected shooter haven’t been launched.
The capturing occurred close to a Chicago Fire Department station, in response to media studies.
In a separate incident, a police officer was shot hours later. His situation was not instantly recognized, spokesman Tom Ahearn stated.
The downtown shootings come amid a surge in lethal violence in Chicago lately, and comply with different downtown-area shootings this 12 months, together with one which left two individuals useless and 7 injured exterior a fast-food restaurant and a capturing in Millennium Park that killed a teen.
So far this 12 months, nevertheless, the variety of homicides in Chicago is down from the identical interval in 2021, in response to police.