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At slightest 12 radical successful a assemblage connected a Chicago thoroughfare suffered gunshot wounds aft an SUV pulled up and 2 radical wrong started shooting, constabulary said.
The SUV drove distant from the South Side neighborhood, leaving 2 people, some male, successful captious information pursuing the shooting precocious Friday, constabulary said successful a quality release. One suffered a gunshot coiled to the thigh.
The 8 men and 4 women successful the radical ranged successful property from 17 to 47. They were being treated astatine 4 hospitals.
Police said different antheral suffered chartless injuries and refused aesculapian treatment.
Police initially responded to a telephone of 1 idiosyncratic shot, and recovered a pistillate with 2 gunshot wounds to her backmost and a antheral with 4 graze wounds to his back. Both were listed successful just condition.
Detectives were investigating.
Further accusation was not instantly available.
Police reported astatine slightest 21 radical changeable successful the metropolis since Friday evening, resulting successful 4 deaths.
The shootings happened connected Juneteenth, a vacation that celebrates the extremity of slavery successful the U.S. Earlier Friday (June 19, 2026), erstwhile President Barack Obama and erstwhile archetypal woman Michelle Obama welcomed the archetypal visitors to his statesmanlike halfway connected the South Side.
Pastor Donovan Price, a section advocator for weapon transgression victims, told CBS News that seeing a wide shooting similar this connected the vacation is simply a tragedy.
“It should beryllium celebrating,” helium said. “Fireworks should not crook into gunshots."
