14 people shot, including 3 children, in East Garfield Park. 'It's over by three seconds.' - Chicago Sun-Times

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Fourteen radical were shot, including 3 children, successful a drive-by shooting successful East Garfield Park connected the West Side Monday night, Chicago constabulary said.

The children are 3, 11 and 13 years old, Police Supt. David Brown told reporters. All 3 were successful superior condition. The different victims ranged successful property from 31 to 56, constabulary said.

The shooting occurred astir 9 p.m. arsenic immoderate radical gathered successful the 2700 artifact of West Flournoy Street for a vigil and others were retired for Halloween, constabulary said. It was not known who the vigil was for.

“It’s implicit by 3 seconds,” Brown said extracurricular Stroger Hospital, wherever galore of the wounded were taken. “The car’s pulling retired aft driving by and shooting randomly into the crowd.

“We bash not person immoderate motive,” helium said, adding that officers judge determination were 2 shooters.

“We ever interest astir retaliation obviously, but we don’t cognize capable astir this, whether it progressive a pack struggle oregon immoderate idiosyncratic struggle yet, but arsenic soon arsenic we cognize we’ll stock that with the public,” Brown said. “And evidently we’re deploying other constabulary resources successful the country to marque definite that we tin forestall immoderate retaliation if that’s thing that’s real.”

All the victims were taken to hospitals with injuries ranging from captious information to not life-threatening, constabulary said. A 37-year-old antheral and 48-year-old antheral were successful captious condition, constabulary said. The largest fig of wounded were taken to Stroger Hospital.

A pistillate was struck by a car portion trying to flight the shooting, constabulary said. She was successful just information with scrapes connected her body. No 1 was successful custody.

Brown said the shooting was captured connected constabulary surveillance video, which investigators are reviewing. Detectives are besides waiting for victims to decorativeness being treated truthful they tin interrogation them.

A reward of up to $15,000 is being offered for accusation starring to charges oregon conviction. Anyone with accusation was asked to taxable a extremity to cpdtip.com.