A 21-year-old woman was fatally shot while confronting burglars Wednesday night while four others, including two children, were shot two hours earlier on the city’s South Side.
The unidentified woman left a home and walked out to its garage to approach burglars in the 7500 block of South Wolcott Avenue about 7:45 p.m. when the assailant opened fire, hitting her in the chest, back and arm, Chicago police said in a media notification.
She was dead on the scene, in the city’s Gresham neighborhood, police said.
Two hours earlier, in the 1600 block of West 68th Street, two boys, 6 and 11, were with a 21-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man when someone shot them when they were traveling in a vehicle, police said.
The 6-year-old was shot in the forearm and the 11-year-old was wounded in his right arm. Both boys were taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where they were listed in good condition.
The woman was shot in the face and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition, while the 24-year-old man was shot in both legs and also taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, police said.
About 7:30 p.m., southeast of Miles Davis Magnet Academy, yellow tape closed off 68th Street from Paulina Street to Ashland Avenue.
A handful of neighbors on Paulina sat or stood on their front porch, watching police cars at the shooting scene.
About a mile and a half south on Wolcott Avenue, neighbors stood on their porch or on the sidewalk talking and watching as police surrounded the home where the 21-year-old woman was killed.
No one was arrested in either attack and detectives were investigating.