Chicago violence: 4 killed, over 30 injured

Four people have lost their lives and more than 30 others have sustained injuries in several shootings in the city of Chicago since Friday night, US police say.

In the latest incident, a young woman was shot dead on Fullerton Avenue, near Kedzie on Sunday, police said. The 21-year-old woman was driving her car when the fatal shooting happened.

A group of men opened fire on a car in the 3500 block of West Fullerton Avenue, injuring 21-year-old Cindy Bahena, a backseat passenger travelling in the car. Bahena was pronounced dead a short time after she was taken to a nearby Norwegian-American Hospital.

According to police authorities, the driver of the car is a gang member and the victim was not the intended target of the attack.

17-year-old Jaquez Williams and 21-year-old Martarvian Emery were the two other victims who lost their lives in separate incidents Chicago shootings.

Williams was shot and killed by the 5500 block of West North Avenue early in the morning. Emery was in the kitchen of his home in the Back of the Yards neighborhood when someone opened fire outside. A woman was also wounded in the incident.

Chicago is one of the most dangerous cities in the US with very high gun deaths. An FBI crime statistics, released in late 2013, said the city registered more homicides in 2012 than New York City.

The FBI report said there were 500 murders in Chicago and 419 in New York in 2012. Chicago’s population is one third of that of New York.