Chicago shootings left 2 dead, 6 wounded

Shootings in South Side, Chicago have left two men dead and six others injured midday Monday and early Tuesday morning, police authorities said.

Police said a man, aged 20, was shot in the head about 2:00 a.m. on Tuesday in the 11600 block of South Stewart Avenue.

Officers received a call from someone who heard multiple gunshots from a nearby alley, police said. Officers arrived at the scene to find a man with a gunshot wound to the head. The victim was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Also, a 26-year-old man was fatally shot at about 7:00 p.m. on Monday in the Englewood district of Chicago, police reported.

Apparently, a person in a passing white car opened fire, shooting the man in the 7100 block of South Green Street and fled on Green Street.

The man shot in the side once and twice in his right leg was rushed to Advocate Christ in critical condition and later pronounced dead.

In other shootings, two teenage boys were shot Monday afternoon on the 7300 block of South East End Avenue. A 15-year-old was shot in the left leg and a 16-year-old boy was shot in the back and both are in stable condition.

In addition, a man, 28, was shot in the eye and another 21-year-old man in the back Monday, police said. Both of them were hospitalized in stable condition.

Finally, two other men aged 18 and 24 were shot in left ankle and in the leg respectively and were taken to hospital in stable condition.