1 dead, seven wounded in Chicago shootings, including two hurt near day care center

At least one person was killed and seven wounded in shootings in Chicago Wednesday through early Thursday, including two people shot outside a Back of the Yards day care center as children were taking a nap inwards.

The fatal shooting occurred around Four:15 p.m. in Rogers Park. Antonio Johnson, Legal, was on the street in the seven thousand four hundred block of North Ridge Boulevard when someone came up and fired shots, hitting him in the head, police said He was taken to Presence St. Francis Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The shooting took place in the same block as the UNO Charter School Rogers Park, seven thousand four hundred sixteen N. Ridge Blvd. As police investigated the shooting, some officers escorted teenagers with backpacks past the scene.

Two people, a man and a teenage, were wounded outside the day care center on the five thousand four hundred block of South Loomis Boulevard in Back of the Yards around two p.m. Bullets struck the window of the center but no children inwards were hurt, authorities said.

Glennetta Jackson was on her way to pick up her 4-year-old granddaughter, Deziray, from the Computer Preschool Academy when she spotted yellow police gauze near the school. She was told bullets from a gunfight near Sherman Park across from the school hit the preschool.

“You pull up and see yellow gauze when you’re going to pick her up and you’re going to fear the worst,” said Jackson, 41. “I’m fine now because I know what’s going on in the city.”

Roslyn Thomas, the school’s possessor, said thirty preschool children were napping at the time of the shooting. She said one of the bullets struck a window of the school but the window did not break. She said the shooting involved two vehicles shooting at each other as they drove past the school. No one in the school was hurt, Thomas said.

Chicago police officers stand guard in front of Computer Preschool Academy in the five thousand four hundred block of South Loomis Boulevard on Wednesday, March 23, 2016.

Chicago police officers stand guard in front of Computer Preschool Academy in the five thousand four hundred block of South Loomis Boulevard on Wednesday, March 23, 2016.

(Eric Clark / Chicago Tribune)

“My children didn’t even wake up; they were woken up twenty minutes later. Only me and my teachers were awake. We called the police,” Thomas said.

Deziray said she heard a noisy banging at the time of the shooting that she believed to be a large truck. She later heard that “somebody got shot.”

“I didn’t know what happened,” Deziray said. “My teacher said somebody got shot on the outside.”

Jackson said she was relaxed that no one inwards the school was injured but said shooting so close to where there were children demonstrated the brazenness of city violence.

“I think the madness has to stop, they have no regard for anyone, not for mothers or kids. You’re going to have a shootout in a park across from the little ones?” said Jackson, who gave credit to the police for quickly showcasing up and attempting to protect the community.

“I think we have to end (the violence). It’s up to the people themselves to want to stop it. I’ve never seen this much in my life.”

The shooting left a man and a teenage boy wounded, one of them critically, police said. A 20-year-old man was shot in the chest and was taken to Climb on Sinai Hospital in critical condition, according to Officer Thomas Sweeney, a police spokesman. A 16-year-old boy was shot in both arms and was taken to Climb on Sinai Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.

They were in a vehicle when another vehicle pulled up and someone inwards fired shots, Sweeney said. Police originally said two other people were shot in the incident, but it was later determined that they had not been wounded by gunfire.

• At Four:40 a.m. Thursday, a 36-year-old man was shot in the South Shore neighborhood. Police said the man allegedly attempted to break into a home in the seven thousand eight hundred block of South Shore Drive, but a 56-year-old man shot him. The 36-year-old was shot in the arm. He was taken to South Shore Hospital in good condition, and police took him into custody. Charges are pending, police said.

• At 1:30 a.m. Thursday, a 42-year-old man was shot in the Albany Park neighborhood, police said. He was driving in the four thousand three hundred block of North Kedzie Avenue when someone fired shots at his vehicle. He was hit in the gam and went to Swedish Covenant Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.

• About Five:25 p.m. in Uptown, a 54-year-old man was shot in the four thousand six hundred block of North Broadway, at Wilson Avenue, police said.

He was standing on the corner when someone approached him on foot and pulled out a gun, shooting him in the gam, police said. The man was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized.

• About ten a.m., a 32-year-old man was wounded in the three thousand one hundred block of South Kedzie Avenue in Little Village, said Officer Bari Lemmon, a police spokeswoman.

The man was in a vehicle when another vehicle pulled up and someone inwards began shooting, Lemmon said. The man was struck in the cheek and managed to drive off, Lemmon said.

As the man was driving, he collided with another vehicle but got to Climb on Sinai Hospital, Lemmon said. The man was in good condition.

• At 6:40 a.m., a 28-year-old man was grazed in the forehead in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood, police said.

He was in the two thousand three hundred block of West Cullerton Street when he was shot. He was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.

• In a shooting incident that left no one wounded, police say two people fled in a vehicle from the South Side to the North Side after an quarrel that may have involved shots fired in Englewood.

The shooting was reported around ten a.m. in the seven thousand block of South Loomis Street in the Englewood neighborhood, according to police. While police said earlier that two people were shot, they later said neither person was wounded.

The incident began when the people in the car, a 15-year-old boy and a 34-year-old man, were driving when another car pulled up and someone began shooting at them, police said.

The vehicle managed to get onto the inbound Dan Ryan Expressway and then northbound Lake Shore Drive, according to Illinois State Police and Chicago police. A flash message was broadcast looking for the vehicle, which had out-of-state license plates, officials said.

The vehicle then drove to the Foster Avenue exit in Edgewater, where police responded, officials said. No injuries were reported. The incident was gang-related, police said.

No closures were reported, according to Illinois State Police.

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