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One person died and four others are in serious to critical condition after a shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Tuesday afternoon, fire officials said.
Authorities responded to reports of a shooting just before 4:45 p.m. One person was pronounced dead at the scene, said Larry Merritt, Chicago Fire Department spokesperson.
Police officers tried to administer first aid to those injured, said Don Jerome, a 9th District commander with the Chicago Police Department.
“They were met by a hostile crowd,” Jerome said, adding that people started fighting with police officers.
Two people are in custody for fighting with officers, Jerome said.
A car fled the scene and crashed a few blocks away near the 4500 block of South Marshfield Avenue, Jerome said. Police are still looking for the person or people in that car, but they recovered two weapons from the car, Jerome said.
A third weapon was recovered from the shooting scene, he said.
Later, reporters and community members heard about nine gunshots a few blocks from a media staging area.
Police said ShotSpotter detected gunshots “on the other side of the railroad tracks” meaning south of 49th Street, but it was too soon to know whether that was related to the earlier shooting.
Residents sat on their front porches and on the steps of a store on the corner of West 48th Street and South Loomis Boulevard talking about the shootings in their community.
Paramedics took two people to University of Chicago Medical Center, one person to Mount Sinai Hospital and one person to Stroger Hospital, all suffering gunshot wounds, Merritt said.
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