text: EMBED More News Videos Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Fred Waller addresses the surge in shootings this weekend. 
   
   EMBED More News Videos A shooting in the Lawndale neighborhood Sunday morning left a 17-year-old girl killed and five people, including an 11-year-old boy, wounded. 
   
   EMBED More News Videos Jahnae Patterson, 17, was killed in a shooting Sunday morning. 
   
   Dozens of people have been wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago police said.63 people have been shot, ten fatally, since 5 p.m. Friday. 34 of the shootings and five deaths occurred between 10 a.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday, according to police.During one two-and-a-half hour-hour period, 25 people were shot in five multi-injury shootings. One paramedic described Saturday evening into Sunday morning as "a war zone.""We know that some of these incidents were targeted and are related to gang conflicts in those areas," said Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Fred Waller at a press conference Sunday afternoon.CPD said the majority of the shootings took place in the six, tenth and 11th districts and that gunmen shot into large crowds.The most recent shooting took place near the 2600 block of South State Street just before 8 p.m. In that incident, three people were standing in front of a residence when a shooter exited a car and opened fire, according to officials. Two women and one man were hit.The assailant then got back into the car and drove north on State Street, police said.Very early Sunday morning, a pair of shootings in the Lawndale neighborhood left a teen girl killed and nine people wounded.Police said two gunman got out of a white Impala and shot four people at a block party in the 1600-block of South Avers Avenue at about 12:02 a.m. Later Sunday morning, Jahnae Patterson, 17, was killed and five other people wounded, including an 11-year-old boy in a shooting in the 1300-block of South Millard Avenue.Patterson's family held an impromptu vigil Sunday to remember the young woman who hoped to become a lawyer."They took my baby's life for no reason," said Patterson's mother, Tanika Humphries.It is unclear who the gunman intended to shoot. Police currently have no suspects.In a separate incident, police said a group of people, three teens and five adults, were standing in a courtyard in the 1300-block of West 76th Street at about 12:40 a.m. when several people approached on foot and opened fire at the group. The victims range in age from 14-years-old to 35 years-old.Several had multiple gunshot wounds. All of them were transported to area hospitals and all are expected to survive.No one is in custody in connection with the shooting."We have such a genocide in our community, it's driving me absolutely bonkers," said Pastor Reshorna Fitzpatrick of Stone Temple Baptist Church. "I don't want to do any marches. I just want people to cooperate and let kids live."In one shooting in the Gresham neighborhood, eight people were wounded, police said.Later Sunday morning, four people were shot, one fatally, in the North Austin neighborhood.The shooting took place at 4 a.m. in the 1600-block of North LeClaire Avenue. A 19-year-old was shot in the back of the head and pronounced dead at the scene.A 37-year-old man was shot in the right calf and hospitalized in stable condition, a 21-year-old man was shot in the upper thigh and hospitalized in stable condition and another male victim was shot and is hospitalized. The condition of the fourth victim was not immediately known.At 6:50 a.m. Sunday, one man was killed and four others wounded in a shooting in the first block of North Leclaire Avenue in the South Austin neighborhood, police said.A 32-year-old man was shot four times and was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital. A 30-year-old man was shot in the back of the head and is hospitalized in critical condition, a 27-year-old woman was shot in the arm and wrist and is hospitalized in stable condition, a 21-year-old woman was released from the hospital after suffering a graze wound and a 34-year-old man walked into Stroger Hospital with a wound to his lower leg and is in good condition.Police said there was a "trauma lockdown" at Stroger Hospital with only immediate family members of victims are being allowed in the emergency room. A spokeswoman for Stroger Hospital disputed the police account."Over the past 24 hours, Stroger's trauma unit received an unusually high volume of patients. At no time did Stroger go on bypass or 'lockdown' its trauma unit," the spokeswoman said. "We are asking the families of trauma patients to limit visitation at this time to immediate family members only so staff may focus on patient care."This comes just days after Superintendent Eddie Johnson visited ABC7 and talked about decreasing crime numbers and overall violence in Chicago."I think some of our more challenging, communities, it's just imperative that police and the community work together to reduce this gun violence," Superintendent Johnson said. "We just have too many guns on the streets of Chicago."After an event announcing an expansion of the Riverwalk, Mayor Rahm Emanuel voiced the need to create more jobs, not just in the central business district, but on the South and West Sides as well."Wednesday we announced a number of businesses that are going to be part of the neighborhood opportunity fund that create the most important part of our neighborhood economy," Emanuel said. "We together have to work as a city....we have a challenge and it requires all of us. Not just our police officers."CPD representatives said Sunday that they plan to focus their resources for the evening on neighborhoods where retaliation seems likely. ||||| Dozens shot over weekend, five dead 
   
   A total of 34 people were shot — five of whom died — during a 24-hour stretch from Saturday morning into Sunday morning that was one of the most violent in recent city memory, according to Chicago police. 
   
   The shootings, concentrated on the West and South sides, took place between 10 a.m. Saturday to 10 a.m. Sunday. 
   
   The heaviest amount of violence took place between midnight and 3 a.m., when 30 people were shot. Five mass shootings, in which three or more people were shot, accounted for 25 of the shooting victims during the three-hour span. 
   
   A single shooting in the Gresham neighborhood wounded eight people, including four teenage girls. 
   
   “I promise this city that we won’t be defeated,” Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Fred Waller said during a news conference held Sunday afternoon at police headquarters. “We won’t be overrun by that small element that’s committing these reckless acts.” 
   
   Waller said much of the violence is being traced back to gangs. 
   
   “It’s one of our most violent weekends, there’s no question about that,” police spokesman Tom Ahern said. 
   
   Waller said the uptick in violence cannot be attributed to police resources being diverted to the Lollapalooza music festival. 
   
   Officers working Lollapalooza were on their regular days off and received overtime pay, he said. “So they’re not people who would have been on the street anyway, so we’re not losing any resources to Lollapalooza,” Waller said. 
   
   Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was downtown Sunday to announce plans for improvements to the Riverwalk, was not at the news conference. Police Supt. Eddie Johnson also was not in attendance. 
   
   The aftermath of many of the shootings played out inside and outside the emergency room at Stroger Hospital where extended members and friends were prevented from entering as the staff dealt with the influx of trauma patients. 
   
   Visitation was limited to immediate family members, leaving dozens of people to mill about the parking lot outside the emergency room, where the sounds of crying, wailing and yelling could be heard every few minutes. Tempers occasionally flared. Nearly two dozen police officers huddled near the entrance to the hospital. 
   
   “This is the worst I’ve ever seen it,” said one law enforcement officer stationed outside the hospital who’s seen similar scenes play out over two decades. 
   
   “It’s hot right now. There’s a lot of tension,” said the officer, who asked not to be named. “And it might get worse because you can hear people talking about revenge, saying on their cellphones ‘I know know who did it. You get him.’ ” 
   
   About a half hour later, U.S. Rep. Danny Davis showed up at the parking lot to offer comfort to people, many of whom are constituents. 
   
   “We continue to try to develop enough resources to prevent these kind of incidents from happening,” Davis told reporters, expressing frustration with a lack of government funding for programs that could prevent street violence. 
   
   “I’ll be willing to bet that many of the people who are here right now to express concern are also unemployed, don’t have jobs, are frustrated in terms of daily living,” he said. ||||| Tweet with a location 
   
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The largest shooting, which injured eight people, happened in the South Side’s Gresham neighborhood as a group, including a 14-year-old girl, was standing in a courtyard just before 12:40 a.m. The crowd had gathered after attending a funeral repass, said Fred Waller, Chicago police chief of patrol. During a Sunday news conference, Waller voiced frustration at gang members whom he blamed for taking advantage of large summer crowds to use as cover to take revenge. The gang members do not fear repercussions from the law, Waller said. “They take advantage of that opportunity and they shoot into a crowd, no matter who they hit,” Waller said. Even a block party was not safe from the violence. READ MORE: 17-year-old boy killed on bike among 6 shot since Sunday afternoon » At 16th Street and Avers Avenue, people in lime green T-shirts from an annual block party in the West Side’s Lawndale neighborhood gathered on sidewalks and in streets after a shooting there around midnight. Crime scene tape crossed 16th Street east of Springfield Avenue and stretched far down the block past Penn Elementary School on the south side of 16th. There, a 13-year-old boy was shot twice in the right arm. A car drove up to the gathering and two people got out and opened fire into the crowd, hitting two more teenagers and a 25-year-old man. “If they shoot you, they don’t even run,” said one man watching police work the scene. “They just walk away, they ain’t trying to run.” The youngest person hurt was an 11-year-old boy shot in the left leg on the West Side — also in the Lawndale neighborhood. He was on the sidewalk with five other people, including a 14-year-old boy, when two men came up to them and started shooting, police said. Although investigations were just getting underway, Waller said many of the shootings appeared to be targeted attacks. Police also noted that many of the shootings were in four police districts, including the West Side’s Harrison, Ogden and Austin police districts, that have struggled with violent crime this year. Waller said police were sticking with their strategy that targets illegal guns, and prior to this weekend’s surge, they credited it with declines in homicides and shootings from last year. More than 5,500 illegal guns have been confiscated on the street this year. Police are planning coordinated enforcement that will target gangs and individuals they believe are driving violence, while police also seek to thwart retaliatory attacks. “I promise this city, we won’t be defeated,” Waller said. “We won’t be overrun by that small element that’s committing these reckless acts.” The level of violence on Sunday made it difficult for police and hospitals to keep track. Resources at local hospitals were taxed as the wounded and their families poured in. Access to Stroger Hospital was tightened. At one point, more than 200 people had converged on the hospital. Mount Sinai Hospital had to stop accepting new emergency cases for a while. Earlier Sunday, police said there were 47 people shot, five killed between 9 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday. Later in the day, however, police counted 34 shooting victims and five homicides in the same 24-hour period About 15 of those shot were in their teens. In the attack in Gresham, seven of those shot were 21 or younger. During one 2½-hour early morning period, 25 people were shot in five multiple-injury shootings, police said. One of the dead was 17-year-old Jahnae Patterson, who was shot in the face. Sunday evening more than two dozen relatives of Patterson, a Manley Career Academy High School senior, sobbed outside her family’s brown brick two-flat in the city’s West Garfield Park neighborhood. Friends and family members hung five poster boards on a fence outside the home with photos of the young woman. Patterson’s family said she and a friend had gone to a block party and were walking to use a bathroom when they encountered two young men who engaged in a shootout. “My baby just left the house. Twenty minutes later, I get a call saying my baby got shot,” Patterson’s mother, Tanika Humphries, said. The fifth of nine children and the first girl in the family, Patterson had her entire life ahead of her, her mother said. “My baby did not deserve this,” she said. “My baby wasn’t the type to hang out. She was in school. She worked. She did everything she was supposed to do as a teenager. And then coward (expletive) took it all away from us.” Family and friends attend a vigil for Jahnae Patterson, 17, who was killed after being shot in the face earlier in the morning on Aug. 5, 2018, in the 4200 block of West Wilcox Street in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) Humphries said her daughter was born with health problems, but survived to be a beautiful and vital young woman, beloved by her young nieces and nephews, as well as her friends. “I’m trying to be strong, but I can’t,” Humphries said as she broke down and was surrounded by relatives. “I can’t.” Earlier Sunday, people congregated at Mount Sinai Hospital, leaning against cars and embracing on the sidewalk. Yellow crime scene tape encircled two cars outside the emergency room, a white sedan and a black one that had its front crumpled and windshield cracked. Dozens of others gathered outside Stroger Hospital, clustered in small groups in the parking lot. Only immediate family members of victims were allowed inside, according to police. Families walked up to the entrance, guarded by police. Octavia White said she went to Stroger to see her daughter, who she said was among those shot in the 4700 block of West Gladys Avenue in West Garfield Park. “I thank God it wasn’t her time,” White said as she walked to the bus stop. “I’ll be back here when she wakes up.” 
   
   As the sun beat down during daytime Sunday, groups of family and friends remained stationed outside the hospital. Ald. Walter Burnett, 27th, stopped by to speak with the families. Burnett said the shootings affect whole families and entire communities, as evidenced by the crowd outside Stroger. “You have young kids crying, older people crying, it’s just so heartbreaking,” Burnett said. “So we try to give them some comfort, pray for them, and also at the same time try to encourage the young adult men not to try to get revenge.” DATA: The Tribune crime team tracks shooting victims in Chicago » Burnett said it’s up to the neighborhoods to stop the violence. He talked about growing up in the former Cabrini-Green housing project. “It was the mothers, it was the preachers, it was people in the neighborhood who stopped the wars in Cabrini-Green,” he said. “It wasn’t the police.” Asked what Chicago police can expect as far as outside governmental help, Waller said: “I’m not a politician. All I know is the boots on the ground are trying as hard as they can to be accountable for what’s going on. We’re moving people to different places in these different (police) districts. Some of the areas that we had covered weren’t, we hadn’t had violence — now we have violence. “But as far as anybody coming to help us, this is something we’re going to have to do on our own,” he said. Activist Eric Russell, an organizer of the anti-violence protest Thursday that shut down Lake Shore Drive, also spoke outside of the hospital. “This is the reason why we march,” he said. Russell went on to harshly criticize Mayor Rahm Emanuel for not doing enough to address gun violence. “Our people are hurting over there,” Russell said. “Our people are left to languish in a vicious cycle of gun violence.” Among the shootings since 11 a.m. Saturday through about 7 a.m. Sunday, police have released the following information: Sunday In the most recent shooting, three men and two women were hit about 6:50 a.m. when a gunman came out of an alley and opened fire on the group in the first block of North LeClaire Avenue in the South Austin neighborhood. A 32-year-old with four gunshot wounds, including two to the left side of his neck, was taken to Stroger, where he was pronounced dead, according to a police spokeswoman. A 30-year-old man shot in the back of the head was taken to Stroger in critical condition. A 27-year-old woman was taken to Stroger for gunshot wounds to her left arm and wrist, while a 21-year-old woman was treated and released from West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park for a graze wound. A 34-year-old man showed up to Stroger with a gunshot wound in his lower left leg. He was in good condition. No arrests had been made in the case, police said. Just before 5:50 a.m. in West Pullman, a 33-year-old man was shot once in each of his legs in the 12100 block of South Bishop Street by someone last seen northbound on Bishop in a small silver Ford car, police said. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in fair condition. Around 4:15 a.m. in North Austin, four more people were shot in the 1600 block of North LeClaire Avenue, one fatally. A 19-year-old man, shot in the head, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. A 21-year-old man shot in the upper right thigh and a 37-year-old man hit in the right calf were taken to West Suburban and stabilized. An unknown male also shot went to Stroger Hospital, police said. Shortly before 3:40 a.m. in the West Side’s Lawndale neighborhood, a 29-year-old man was shot in the neck. Police officers found the man, later identified as Kenyate L. Sparks, in the 1100 block of South Springfield Avenue. He was transported to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:52 a.m. Around 2:50 a.m. in West Garfield Park, a 14-year-old boy was shot in the left leg in the 200 block of South Pulaski Road. He was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition, police said. Around 2:35 a.m. Sunday in Lawndale, two shooters approached a group standing on the sidewalk in the 1300 block of South Millard Avenue and opened fire, hitting six people. A 17-year-old girl shot in the face was pronounced dead on scene. A 14-year-old boy shot in his left leg was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and stabilized, as was an 11-year-old boy also shot in the left leg. A 21-year-old woman shot in the right arm and back was also taken to Sinai, where she was in critical condition. A 17-year-old boy shot in the right leg was taken to Rush University Medical Center and was stabilized. A 17-year-old girl shot in the right arm was taken to Stroger and stabilized. About 10 minutes earlier in West Garfield Park, three women standing on a front porch were wounded when two groups of males started shooting at each other about 2:25 a.m. in the 4700 block of West Gladys Avenue, police said. A 29-year-old woman shot in the back and a 28-year-old woman shot in the left arm were taken to Stroger and stabilized. A 41-year-old woman shot in the right thigh was stabilized at Loretto Hospital. Around 1:30 a.m. in Little Village, a 26-year-old man standing on the sidewalk in the 3200 block of South Keeler Avenue was hit in the right leg when someone in a white sedan fires shots, police said. He got himself to University of Illinois Chicago Medical Center and was stable. Shortly before 1:05 a.m. in Back of the Yards, a 26-year-old man was killed in a shooting in the 4800 block of South Winchester Avenue. The man, identified by the medical examiner’s office as Kendall Brown, was walking on the sidewalk with another person when someone in a white Jeep shot him in the abdomen and right ankle, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai and later pronounced dead . The Jeep was found unoccupied and having been set on fire in the 4300 block of Paulina, police said. Around 12:50 a.m. in West Humboldt Park, four people were injured in a drive-by shootout the 900 block of North Karlov Avenue. Two people fired shots from inside a black Cadillac, and three of the people hit shot back, causing the car to crash. The two in the car ran from the scene. A 43-year-old man walking down the street was shot in the thigh during the crossfire, police said. The other three people shot were a 30-year-old man hit in the right ankle and left calf; a 43-year-old man shot in the thigh; and a 29-year-old man grazed in the chest. All were taken to Stroger in good condition.
target: – Chicago might have been making headlines this weekend for the thousands of people who packed downtown for Lollapalooza. Instead, most of the attention is focused on the shooting violence that occurred elsewhere in the city, leaving more than 60 injured and 10 dead between Friday evening and Monday morning, reports WLS-TV. The worst of it took place in a three-hour span starting around midnight Saturday when 30 people were shot, reports the Sun-Times. Of those victims, 25 were injured in five mass shootings. Police say gang violence is mostly to blame, with shooters taking advantage of large gatherings in the summer weather to inflict the most casualties. "If they shoot you, they don’t even run,” one man tells the Chicago Tribune. "They just walk away, they ain’t trying to run." A police spokesman says the extra police presence at the music festival did not play a role in the violence because officers working it were generally on their regular days off and on OT. The violence prompted Rudy Giuliani to enter the fray with a series of tweets backing Garry McCarthy, a former Chicago police chief who hopes to unseat Mayor Rahm Emanuel. "MAKE CHICAGO SAFE AGAIN!" tweeted Giuliani, who worked with McCarthy in New York when Giuliani was mayor. Giuliani called McCarthy a "policing genius" thanks to his work with the data-centric CompStat system, adding, "Chicago murders are direct result of one party Democratic rule for decades." The Washington Post can't resist pointing out that Giuliani misspelled McCarthy's first name as "Jerry" and the current mayor's last name as "Emmanuel," and that McCarthy is a Democrat himself.