Two people were shot, one fatally, in Uptown late Friday night in what multiple law enforcement sources say was almost certainly a retaliatory strike tied to another murder in the neighborhood earlier this month.
Officers were called to the 1200 block of West Sunnyside at 11:49 p.m. after neighbors reported a barrage of gunfire. The cops found an 18-year-old man lying in an alley with a gunshot wound to his head. He was pronounced dead. CPD said officers also found a 27-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to her arm. She was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition.
Investigators found two vehicles abandoned in the alley, each containing two firearms, according to an officer at the scene. Witnesses told police they saw three masked men running away after at least one of them fired the fatal shots.
Multiple sources familiar with the investigation said Friday night’s killing is likely retaliation for the September 15 murder of 17-year-old Kahlif Norwood in the 5000 block of North Winthrop. In that case, Norwood was standing in an alley when eight people approached him and opened fire.
Norwood had previously survived a shooting in Uptown in October 2023. After his murder earlier this month, Chicago police increased patrols around Sunnyside and Magnolia in anticipation of possible revenge violence.
Friday’s victims are the sixth and seventh people shot in Uptown this year. That compares to 11 people shot at this point last year, 12 as of this date in 2023, and 14 by this time in 2022.
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