Four people were killed and 23 people wounded in a rash of shootings in Chicago on Friday and Saturday.Officials said the deaths included a woman killed by a relative in Logan Square; a man killed in a gang-related attack in Lake View; a security guard stabbed and shot at a West Side gas station, and a man who had been released from jail just a couple of days earlier who was shot to death on the South Side. The wounded included at least nine teens ages 14 to 17.
At 4:40 a.m. Saturday, a fight erupted between Isabella Martinez’s 35-year-old sister and a male family member at Martinez’s home in the 2300 block of North Harding, Chicago Police spokesman John Mirabelli said. The man shot both women, killing Martinez, 22, and injuring her sister, police said. No arrest had been made as of Saturday evening.
At 4 a.m., security guard Dennis Fox, 53, was shot by a man he had asked to leave a Citgo gas station at 415 S. Pulaski, police said. Fox, a father who lived in the 4000 block of West Grenshaw, “was a nice guy. It’s very sad,” a Citgo worker said Saturday.
About 1:30 a.m. in Lake View, Louis Cotto was with a group of people standing on a corner at Ashland and Irving Park when someone walked up and fired shots into the group, police said. Cotto, 29, of Barrington, was hit in the chest and died. The shooter fled in a dark SUV. Police were interviewing witnesses Saturday, but no one had been arrested in the attack, which police think was gang-related.
At 6 a.m. Friday, William Newell, 29, a parolee who had been released from custody Wednesday, was chase and gunned down near his home in the 7900 block of South Drexel, police said.
He had been serving a two-year sentence for possession of a controlled substance but was paroled on Aug. 25. He was arrested again on Sept. 16 for possession of a controlled substance and released Wednesday after a judge found no probable cause for the arrest, officials said.
