Chicago shootings: Tracking gun violence in 2024

A 20-year-old man was found shot to death inside a crashed SUV on Chicago's Northwest Side early Wednesday morning, Chicago police said.

Police responded to a reported shooting just before 3 a.m. in the 5700-block of North Central Avenue in Jefferson Park.

A Chicago shooting left a 20-year-old man dead inside an SUV crashed into a tree on North Central Avenue in Jefferson Park, CPD said.

When officers arrived, they found the man in the driver's seat of a silver SUV that had crashed into a tree, CPD said.

The man had suffered a gunshot wound to the head, police said.

Chicago fire crews responded, and the man was pronounced deceased on the scene.

Neither his identity nor what led up to the fatal shooting was immediately released.

No one was in custody later Wednesday morning.

Area Five detectives are investigating.

A 34-year-old man was seriously injured Monday night when he was shot while walking into a gas station on Chicago's West Side, Chicago police said.

The man was walking into a gas station just before 9:30 p.m. in the 3300-block of West Harrison Street in the city's Homan Square neighborhood, when he heard gunshots and felt pain, police said.

He had been shot in the lower back, according to CPD.

Chicago fire crews treated him on the scene, and he was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in serious condition, police said.

No one was in custody Tuesday morning, and Area Four detectives are investigating.

A shooting in a Southwest Side restaurant left one person dead and an employee seriously injured Monday night, Chicago police said.

Chicago police said a 30-year-old man was trying to enter a Little Village restaurant in the 4100-block of West 26th Street about 11:35 p.m., when two male suspects shot at him, hitting him multiple times in the head, police said.

A Chicago shooting killed a man and seriously injured an employee at a Little Village restaurant on West 26th Street Monday night, CPD said.

The suspects left the scene. CPD did not immediately provide any additional information about them or a possible motive.

Chicago fire crews treated the man on the scene, but he was pronounced dead, CPD said.

He was not immediately identified.

The gunshots went through the restaurant's glass, also hitting a 27-year-old woman working there, CPD said.

The woman was also treated by CFD, and taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where she is listed in serious condition.

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

A Chicago police car was damaged by gunfire Sunday night on Chicago's Southwest Side, CPD said.

Chicago police officers in an unmarked car responded to a call of a gang disturbance/person with a gun in the 5200-block of South Homan Avenue in Gage Park just after 11 p.m., CPD said.

That's when they saw a male suspect standing with a group of individuals shoot a gun at them, hitting the car, police said.

Police did not return fire, and no injuries were reported, police said.

The suspect is not in custody, and several people of interest are being questioned by Area One detectives.