A 16-year-old girl was one of five people wounded after a fight broke out and someone began shooting into a crowd in Lawndale early Sunday.
Chicago police and paramedics were called to the 800 block of South Karlov Avenue around 3:30 a.m., near Daniel Webster Elementary School, according to an online statement from police.
The five people who were shot had been standing on the sidewalk “with a group of people when a fight broke out and shots were fired,” police said.
Those injured were:
- A 21-year-old man was shot on his left side and was listed in serious condition at Stroger Hospital.
- A woman, 21, was shot in the left arm and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition.
- Another 21-year-old man was shot in the left arm and was listed in serious condition at Mount Sinai Hospital.
- A 16-year-old girl was shot in the back and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition.
- A man, 33, was shot in the face and he was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition.
Police said no arrests have been made and the shooting remains under investigation.
