The large crowd had gathered in the area of 54th Street and Peoria Avenue. Video shows police trying to clear the huge crowd that stretched down 54th Street from Peoria Avenue to Halsted Street.
Sixteenth Ward Alderman Stephanie Coleman said before the gathering, people were gathered for a memorial service. It was then she said an argument broke out and one person was shot and killed.
Chicago police said that person was 26-year-old Daryle Hall, who was taken the hospital where he later died.
Coleman said the shooting spilled over into the large gathering that police tried to get under control.
"Crime has no place anywhere, but it definitely has no place in communities like Back of the Yards, like Englewood, Chicago Lawn, Marquette Park and it is so devastating that we cannot go outside on our blocks in our community, sit on our back porches without being in fear that a stray bullet can come from anywhere," Alderman Coleman said. "Someone's life was taken due to just senseless violence, senseless killings."
Coleman said the many vacant lots in the neighborhood has attributed to the violence.
While people were seen being taken away in handcuffs during the gathering, its unclear right now if anyone has been charged.
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