Two people were killed and eight other people were wounded in an attack at the site of a memorial where a man was slain earlier Sunday in the Brighton Park neighborhood, police said.
Ten people were shot, including two fatally, in "another brazen act of gang violence,'' Chicago Police Dept. Supt. Kevin Navarro said to reporters at the scene Sunday night.*
Navarro said that the victims, a mix of men and women, were taking part in a memorial for a man, identified by the Cook County medical examiner's office as Daniel Cardova, who had been killed at that location earlier in the day when two people open the fire with rifles from a nearby alleyway.
Deputy Chief Kevin Ryan also made remarks at the scene, and said gang and tactical teams were hitting the area hard in their investigation.
"We have a fairly good idea who were looking for," Ryan said. "We have a fairly good idea of the conflict involved. And right now we're trying to saturate the area."
The happened about 5:20 p.m. in the 2600 block of West 46th Place, police said. Earlier, police said only five people were wounded.
A man about 25 was dead on the scene and another person of an unknown age and gender also "succumbed'' of their wounds,* police said.
Eight additional gunshot victims, mostly adults, were being treated at hospitals, according to the Chicago Fire Department and police.
The fire department earlier said three victims were taken to Stroger Hospital, two of whom were in serious to*critical condition, and the third was in good condition. A fourth adult was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious to critical condition, the fire department said.
The attack occurred near a memorial that was set up for a man identified by the Cook County medical examiner's office as Cardova, who was victim of a fatal rifle shooting about 13 hours earlier.
Cardova, of the 4400 block of South Troy Street, was shot about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, in the 2500 block of West 46th Place, police and the medical examiner's office said. Cardova was pronounced dead at 4:42 a.m., the office said.
Near the 2600 block of W 46th Place, neighbors on their porches craned their heads toward the scene of the shooting where a group of about two dozen police officers had gathered to scour the area.
Just outside of a one story building at the center of the scene sat a makeshift memorial decorated with a heart-shaped balloon, liquor bottles and numerous Catholic candles that were still burning at about 6:40 p.m.
Mere blocks away where police vehicles cast blue strobe lights, children ran toward an ice cream truck and jumped in a bounce house seemingly unaware of the violence that just taken place.
Juxtaposed to the older residents and children were large groups of young men, many wearing hooded sweatshirts.
The men, many wearing black hoodies, haggled with people in passing cars, reporters and police. When a police SUV drove to the corner of 46th Street and Rockwell, one of the men with his hood up tried to open the car door. As the officer chastised the group another one in the bunch held up his phone, shouting "I got you on camera!"
Officers got out of the car, ordering the men to leave. As the group walked north, the man with the camera phone backpedaled yelled, "I got your face on camera!"
A man wearing a black Chicago Bulls hat spoke with investigators at the scene before swiftly waking away. He said two of his children had been taken to Stroger and reportedly died in Sunday's late afternoon shooting.
"I hate violence. I don't know how I feel but I know how to get even," said the man, who declined to identify himself or elaborate on his comments.
The shootings come five days after two Deering District tactical officers were struck by rifle fire in the neighboring Back of the Yards, southeast of Brighton Park.
During the press conference Navarro said "at this point,'' police do not believe the two Sunday shootings on 46th Place are connected to the officers' shooting.