Chicago shootings: Tracking gun violence in 2024

A 16-year-old boy was injured when a bullet came through a window in his Austin home Wednesday night, Chicago police said.

A Chicago shooting injured a teen inside his North Lorel Avenue home in Austin, CPD says. The bullet came through a window, police said.

Chicago police responded to the 600-block of North Lorel Avenue just before 10:45 p.m. for a report of a person shot.

When officers arrived, they found the teen with a gunshot wound to the hip inside his home.

CPD said the bullet that hit him came through a window. It was not immediately clear what led up to the shooting.

The boy was taken to Stroger Hospital in fair condition.

No one is in custody Thursday, and Area Four detectives are investigating.

An armed man was shot and critically injured outside a Family Dollar store on Chicago's South Side on Tuesday evening, police said.

Police said the shooting happened in the South Shore neighborhood's 2300-block of East 79th Street just after 7:15 p.m.

Three offenders wearing face coverings entered the store, police said. One of them took out a gun and pistol-whipped an unarmed security guard in the face.

Police said the group was running away when someone outside of the store took out a gun and shot one of them, a 60-year-old man, in the chest.

The 60-year-old suspect was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition. Officers recovered a gun from the man, and he is in police custody at the hospital.

That shooter, along with the other two suspects, got away.

Charges are pending, and detectives are still looking for the other three people involved.

Area Two detectives are investigating.

Police did not immediately provide further information.

A teen boy was shot inside a vehicle on Chicago's West Side on Monday night.

Police said the shooting happened in the Homan Square neighborhood's 3400-block of West Grenshaw Street around 8:15 p.m.

A 14-year-old boy was sitting inside a parked vehicle when someone, identified only as male, fired shots, police said.

The Chicago Fire Department transported the victim, shot in the leg, to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition.

There is no one in custody and Area Four detectives are investigating.

Police did not immediately provide further information about the shooting.

A Chicago police officer was among two people shot and killed on the city's South Side on Monday night, CPD said.

The shooting happened in the East Chatham neighborhood near East 80th Street and South Ingleside Avenue around 8 p.m.

CPD Supt. Larry Snelling said officers stopped vehicle with three people inside and approached. That's when someone inside fired shots, striking the 26-year-old officer multiple times. Another person inside the vehicle was also fatally shot.

Snelling said at one point, an officer discharged his weapon at the scene. Detectives are still analyzing the firearms belonging to the officers involved in Monday night's incident, he added.

The suspected shooter tried to flee the scene on foot, but was later taken into custody, Snelling said. A third person, who was inside a rear seat of vehicle, was taken into custody on the scene.

Fellow officers took the injured officer to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. He had served just under three years with CPD, Snelling said.

Officers recovered two guns from the scene.

One of the guns was in the possession of the person who suffered fatal gunshot wounds inside the vehicle. The other gun is a semi-automatic weapon with an extended magazine.

Neighbors who did not want to appear on camera told ABC7 they heard gunshots before seeing officers swarming the scene.

Several streets surrounding the scene were blocked off while police continued to investigate Monday evening.

A massive police presence could be also seen outside the hospital at East 57th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is responding, and the Mobile Command Post also arrived on the scene.

Snelling said CPD is not yet releasing the officer's name in order to let his family grieve.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson also spoke at Monday night's press conference, and he and Snelling asked Chicago residents to keep the officer's family in their thoughts.