Crime & Safety
5th Person Dies After Apartment Mass Shooting In Chicago
Police said a 66-year-old man opened fire as several people ate dinner in a Northwest Side apartment.
CHICAGO — Five people were killed after a man opened fire Saturday evening at an apartment building in the 6700 block of West Irving Park Road building on the city's Northwest Side, police said.
Police told WGN a 66-year-old man walked into an apartment where four people were eating dinner around 5:30 p.m. Saturday and shot all four of them before going upstairs and shooting a woman. Police said they did not know what motivated the man to open fire.
The woman who was shot was initially listed in critical condition but died Sunday, according to reports.
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Activist Andrew Holmes said a 21-year-old man who survived the shooting lost his entire family, WGN reported.
Police said a gun was recovered and a person of interest was in custody Saturday night.
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Today’s mass shooting at a condo building on W. Irving Park is devastating and almost unfathomable, except it is happening way too frequently—not only here, but across our country.
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) October 13, 2019
Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the shooting "devastating," adding Chicago mourns the losses but will "continue the hard but necessary work of keeping our neighborhoods safe, and taking guns out of the hands of those who are mentally infirm."
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