Seven are killed, including one pregnant woman, in separate shootings in Chicago neighborhood over span of 24 hours
- Patrice L. Calvin was found with a gunshot wound to the head in her apartment
- Two people in a van were shot in the city's South Shore neighborhood Thursday
- Emmanuel C. Stokes and Edwin Davis were fatally shot in Nadia Fish and Chicken
- Dillon, 20, and Raheam Jackson, 19, were killed while running from restaurant
- Police said that the shooting was likely a gang-related retaliation
Seven people, including one pregnant woman, were killed in separate shootings in the same Chicago neighborhood in just 24 hours, police have said.
A 27-year-old man and 23-year-old woman were shot dead after a black Jeep pulled up alongside their van around 11pm in the city's South Shore neighborhood on Thursday. The van crashed during the shooting and the two died at the scene.
That afternoon around 3.30pm, two men were fatally shot in Nadia Fish and Chicken restaurant after a man approached the victims and opened fire, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Gunned down: Emmanuel C. Stokes (left), 28, and Edwin Davis (right), 32, were fatally shot in Nadia Fish and Chicken restaurant after man approached the victims and opened fire,
Dillon (right), 20, and Raheam Jackson (left), 19, were also shot dead after they ran from the restaurant during the shooting and were later gunned down about a block awa
The victims were identified as 28-year-old Emmanuel C. Stokes and Edwin Davis, 32.
Two other men, Dillon, 20, and Raheam Jackson, 19, were also killed in the shooting after they ran from the restaurant and were later gunned down about a block away.
According to the victim's grandmother, Georgia Jackson, the brothers had gone to the restaurant to visit their mother who was working at the time.
The mother of the two boys wept at the bloody scene. The woman said she watched her sons die from the window of the restaurant.
'I can’t go on, my life is over. I’m ‘bout to … kill myself,' she told the Chicago Tribune.
Patrice L. Calvin was found with a gunshot wound to the head in the 7500 block of South Luella. She was four months pregnant
Georgia Jackson, 72, is overcome with emotion upon learning that her two grandsons, Raheem, 19, and Dillon Jackson, 20, were found fatally shot in the South Shore neighborhood
Mrs Jackson said this is not the first time her grandsons have experienced gun violence and she lost one grandchild in a shooting in 2011
Mrs Jackson said this is not the first time her grandsons have experienced gun violence. Dillon had survived a shooting a few years ago, and her 16-year-old grandson was killed in 2011 in a shooting at a fast food restaurant.
Raheam leaves behind two young children.
'I can’t keep doing this,' she told the Chicago Sun-Times. 'I’m losing too many kids.'
Shortly after midday, the body of a 26-year-old woman who was four months pregnant was discovered in an apartment in the 7500 block of South Luella. Patrice L. Calvin was found with a gunshot wound to the head.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said on Twitter late Thursday that the shooting was likely a gang-related retaliation and detectives are making 'good progress.' No arrests have been made as of Friday morning, the paper reported.
As of this month, there have been more than 130 homicides in Chicago in 2017.
The Thursday shootings match the seven homicides in February which marked the deadliest day of the year, according to the Sun-Times.
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