15 hurt, 2 critically in mass shooting at Halloween party on Chicago's Southwest Side
CHICAGO -- An investigation is underway after multiple people were hospitalized following a mass shooting on the city's Southwest Side overnight. It's the second mass shooting of the weekend. This one happening near Pulaski and 13th Street in Lawndale. As CBS 2's Asal Rezaei reported, At least 15 people were hurt. The Chicago Fire Department said they've transported at least seven people to area hospitals. At one point, a person was being taken away on a stretcher.
A witness in the front of the building says a fight broke out in the back at a Halloween party there. Things quickly escalated when one man was rejected entry at the door following the DJ's announcement the party was coming to an end.'They told him he couldn't come in, and he must have gone to his car and come back and started shooting,' said Andre Williams. A total of seven people were taken to the hospital. An unknown number of victims drove themselves to hospitals.
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