9 killed, more than a dozen wounded in Chicago weekend violence

A violent weekend left Chicago with nine homicides, including a stabbing on a CTA bus, a beating and scores of shootings from Rogers Park to West Pullman, officials said.

The fatal attacks, five of which happened Sunday, were mostly shootings that occurred between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday, and took place citywide from the far north Rogers Park neighborhood to West Pullman on the Far South Side. Victims ranged in age from 17 to 63.

Minutes before rapper Lil Durk's concert began at the United Center about 7 p.m. Sunday, someone shot a group of teens nearby in the 100 block of North Wolcott Avenue. An 18-year-old was killed, a 19-year-old man was critically wounded and a 15-year-old boy was wounded and hospitalized in good condition, officials said.

The 18-year-old, who was shot in the chest and has not been identified, was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital, where the other two were recovering, police said.

Two hours later, Cesar A. Brazon Chacon, 17, and a 14-year-old girl, both Venezuelan immigrants, were walking in the 5600 block of South Maplewood Avenue in Gage Park just before 9 p.m. Sunday when two gunmen, wearing all black and armed with a rifle and a handgun, jumped from a gangway and fired shots, according to a police report.

Cesar was shot multiple times and taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The girl was grazed in the head and shot in the leg and right hand, police said.

In Rogers Park on Sunday, about 8:30 p.m., 27-year-old Derrick Robie was standing outside the CTA’s Morse Red Line station when someone inside a passing black SUV fatally shot him. When officers got there, Robie was inside the station, and paramedics were trying to save his life. Robie was taken to Presence St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead.

Early Monday, an argument sparked an exchange of gunfire early that left a 63-year-old man dead on the scene and a 58-year-old woman wounded in Auburn Gresham. About 2 a.m. in the 1800 block of West 83rd Street the armed 63-year-old man was involved in a dispute that led to an exchange of gunfire with another man, police said.

The woman was taken in fair condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Charges were pending for the man who survived.

At 2 a.m. Sunday in West Pullman, officers found Adam Montjoy, 36, in the 12000 block of South Halsted Street with a gunshot wound in his chest, Chicago police said. Montjoy was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead.

A man was found shot to death Saturday night in the Oakland neighborhood on the South Side. About 8:40 p.m., officers found 32-year-old Chevelle Carter in the 3800 block of South Ellis Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds to his chest, Chicago police said. Carter, of Calumet Park, was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

About 4 a.m. Sunday in the South Chicago neighborhood, an unidentified 23-year-old man was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the 8500 block of South Saginaw Avenue. He was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

And 44-year-old Paulino Juarez was found along railroad tracks in the 2200 block of West 47th Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood about 10:20 p.m. Saturday. Police said Juarez been fighting with several people who chased him down the tracks and beat him. An autopsy determined Juarez died of multiple injuries from an assault, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. A motive was not known.

On Friday night, about 8 p.m. a woman allegedly pulled a knife aboard a CTA bus in Austin and fatally stabbed an unidentified 49-year-old man. She was not in custody. and the victim was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital.

About a dozen more people survived weekend shooting attacks.