Two people were killed and seven others injured after a shooting broke out at Chicago’s Washington Park Tuesday evening following an altercation between two groups, police said.
Officers responded to reports of multiple shots fired at about 7:40 p.m. on Tuesday, the Chicago Police Department said in a statement.
Investigators determined the shooting was the result of “some type of personal altercation between two groups,” Deputy Chief Fred Melean said at a Tuesday news conference.
A 43-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound to the back of the head and was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition, where he was pronounced dead shortly after, police said.
In an update early Wednesday morning, police said a 20-year-old man who sustained “multiple gunshot wounds to the body” later died in the hospital.
Authorities said all those involved in the violence were adults.
The wounded include: a 30-year-old man who sustained a gunshot wound to the left shin, a 39-year-old man shot in the right ankle, a 27-year-old woman shot in the upper left thigh, and a 22-year-old man suffering two gunshot wounds to the left elbow, and a 19-year-old man shot in the upper right shoulder. All of the survivors were hospitalized and in good condition.
No one is in custody following the shooting, the Chicago Police Department said in a statement on Wednesday morning