Weekend shootings
CHICAGO (SUN TIMES MEDIA WIRE - Four people were killed and another 18 were wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago.
Nykea Aldridge, a cousin of Chicago Bulls star Dwyane Wade, was shot to death Friday afternoon as she pushed one of her children in a stroller in the Parkway Gardens neighborhood on the South Side.
Aldridge, of the 6400 block of South King Drive — colloquially referred to as “O Block” — was taken to Stroger Hospital with gunshot wounds to the head and arm and was pronounced dead at 4:15 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
About 3:30 p.m., Aldridge, 32, was walking with a baby in a stroller and a man in the 6300 block of South Calumet when two male suspects walked up and fired shots at a third man, according to Chicago Police.
“As she was walking down the street some type of altercation occurred which didn’t involve her,” Deputy Chief of Detectives James Jones told reporters at Chicago Police headquarters Friday night.
A 55-year-old man was killed in a shooting Friday evening in the Uptown neighborhood on the North Side, police said.
He was shot in the upper right arm at 6:13 p.m. in the 900 block of West Wilson, according to police. He was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 6:51 p.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
Minutes earlier, Romon M. Tolbert, 35, was standing on a corner in the 1500 block of North Meade Avenue when a male got out of a vehicle and approached him shooting, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. The shooter then got back in the vehicle and drove away.
Tolbert, of the 200 block of North Kildare Avenue, was shot in the head and chest and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 6:49 p.m., authorities said.
Two men were shot — one fatally — in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side early Saturday, police said.
The two, ages 21 and 24, were driving home in an alley in the 500 block of West 127th Street about 3:35 a.m. when a male with dreadlocks shot them as he was inside a blue truck, police said.
Both were taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. The younger man was shot in the shoulder and later pronounced dead at the hospital, police said. The other man was shot in the leg. His condition stabilized. Additional details were not available early Saturday.
The most recent nonfatal shooting left two men and a teenage boy wounded Saturday afternoon in the South Side Park Manor neighborhood.
The three were arguing with a group of people about 12:15 p.m. in the 7100 block of South Rhodes when someone in the group pulled out a gun and fired at them before running away, according to police. A 19-year-old man was shot in the head, and his friends drove him to Jackson Park Hospital. He was transferred to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition.
A 17-year-old boy was shot in the thigh and taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition, police said. The third victim, a 35-year-old man, was shot in the neck and took himself to Provident Hospital, where he was listed in good condition. A police source said the shooting appeared to be gang-related.
Several hours earlier, three people were wounded in an Austin neighborhood shooting on the West Side. The three were eating as they sat in a car in the 5400 block of West Ferdinand about 3:05 a.m. when someone walked up and shot them, police said. The teen boy was shot in the right arm and also suffered a graze wound to his left arm. One man, 22, was shot in the left knee, while the other man, also 22, was shot in both feet.
All three were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition, police said.
At least 12 other people have shot across the city since Friday afternoon. Another man initially told investigators he had been shot during a robbery near Navy Pier early Saturday, but that shooting turned out to be self-inflicted, according to police.
A Somali-looking Muslim migrant, Taha Hamid, was arrested last Friday after he allegedly exposed himself inside a women’s bathroom and urinated in the sink.
CBS A Transit Police officer was patrolling the Back Bay station when he was informed a man had just entered the women’s room. As the officer walked toward the bathroom, Taha Hamid of Dorchester was seen leaving the facility.
The officer was told by a woman that while inside the bathroom, Hamid pulled down his pants and urinated in the sink, saying “This is a man’s bathroom now.” Hamid was arrested and charged with open and gross lewdness.