CHICAGO (WLS) — A shooting on I-57 left three people, including two children, dead and three others wounded on the South Side Sunday night, authorities said.
Illinois State Police said six people were in a vehicle in the northbound lanes of I-57 near 115th Street when shots were fired at about 10:30 p.m.
Police saida 19-year-old man, a one-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were pronounced dead at the scene. The girl has been identified to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office as Amara Hall.
A woman was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious but stable condition, police said. Two boys, ages 13 and 14, were transported to Comer Children’s Hospital in serious but stable condtion, police said.
The female driver of the SUV was able to get off of I-57 at 111th Street and Hamlet Avenue.
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Local Pastor Donovan Price came out to the scene upset about the violence.
“A Sunday night, crime has been a little down but tonight, it was just tragic,” Pastor Price said. “Children shot, possibly more than one. Police officers luckily were on hand, took the child to the hospital.”
Meanwhile, state police have not released any description of a suspect or a vehicle. There is also no word on what led up to the shooting.
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