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A man is charged with attempted murder after police officers allegedly saw him stand over a shooting victim in Austin on the West Side.
Jimmie Sessom, 36, shot the man Tuesday morning in the 900 block of North Lawler Avenue, Chicago police said.
Officers were called over by a witness at 9:40 a.m. and found the victim lying in the middle of the street, bleeding and gasping for air, police said. An officer applied pressure to the wound and called for an ambulance.
The man, 30, was shot in his lower abdomen and lower back and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.
9 shot, 2 fatally, Tuesday in Chicago
By Sun-Times Media Wire
CHICAGO - Two people were killed and seven others wounded in shootings in Chicago Tuesday, according to Chicago police.
About 7:40 p.m., a person was walking in the 3400 block of West 18th Street when several people got out of a car and began shooting, Chicago police said. He was struck in the head and chest and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
About an hour earlier, a 29-year-old man was fatally shot in West Rogers Park on the North Side. He was sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car in the 6000 block of North California Avenue, when someone walked up and fired shots, police said. He was struck in the neck and taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston where he was pronounced dead.
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Chicago police officers arrested a gunman after seeing him standing over a shooting victim Tuesday morning in Austin on the West Side.
The gunman had shot a 30-year-old man at 9:40 a.m. in the 900 block of North Lawler Avenue, Chicago police said.
Officers had been called over by a witness and found the victim lying in the middle of the street gasping for air, police said. An officer applied pressure to the wound and called for an ambulance.
The man was shot in his lower abdomen and lower back and was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.
Chicago Fire Department
A man and woman died in a West Side blaze Thursday morning that sent one man jumping from a second-floor window.
A rear portion of home collapsed Jan. 21 while firefighters worked to extinguish flames that engulfed the two-story home in the 500 block of North Lawler Avenue, according to police and fire officials.
Crews spotted the first victim, a woman, dead in the home’s attic, fire department spokesman Larry Langford said.
Crews later uncovered a man dead on the second floor, he said. He was identified as 59-year-old Warren Pete Cooper.
The other victim was identified as Ladonna Whiteside, 35, the medical examiner’s office said.