13-year-old among 2 dead, 13 wounded overnight (Gun free Chicago) [View all]

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A 13-year-old boy and 29-year-old man were killed in separate South and West side shootings and 13 others were wounded in shootings that stretched from Montrose Avenue south to 97th Street between 6:20 p.m. Saturday and 2:45 a.m. Sunday, according to authorities.

A handful of the shootings were gang related, at least two of the teens shot were playing basketball and had no gang or criminal history and one of the men shot was at an after party for a funeral, police said.

The youngest of the men and boys wounded overnight - a 13-year-old - died after getting shot in the 6200 block of South Rhodes Avenue, police said. The boy was at a party with his 19-year-old sister when a fight broke out between males at the party about 1:20 a.m. The two ran from the fight but someone pulled out a gun and shot, striking the boy, police said. He and his sister ran until the boy laid down on the sidewalk until a Chicago Fire Department ambulance made it to the scene. Neither of the siblings has a documented gang affiliation, police said. He was pronounced dead after 3 a.m. He lived in the 6500 block of South Washtenaw Avenue, about 4.5 miles west of where he was shot. A man was shot in the same block the night before.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-2-wounded-in-south-side-shooting-20120623,0,3445713.story