The shootings included one involving Chicago police and another that left an 8-year-old girl dead.
There was a Chicago shooting Saturday night. CPD said a suspect shot an 8-year-old girl on Long Avenue in Portage Park.A man was shot and killed in Douglas Sunday morning, police said.
Police found the men, 18 and 20, in the 10400-block of South Avenue N around 12:15 a.m. The older man suffered seven gunshot wounds to the body and was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The 18-year-old was taken to Advocate Trinity Hospital in good condition with a gunshot wound to the left leg. No arrests have been made and police are investigating.
"He ran over there, football-tackled this guy. The weapon discharged and struck the offender," said community activist Andrew Holmes.
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