Four people are dead and four people are wounded following an argument at a house on Chicago‘s South Side early Tuesday morning.
Gunfire erupted at around 5:42 a.m. in Englewood, and all of the deceased victims were women, according to law enforcement. Two men were also shot in the back of the head, a 23-year-old male took a bullet to the back, and the fourth victim, a woman, was hit with gunfire in an unspecified location.
A 2-year-old was removed from the residence and transported to a local hospital, though she did not have any reported injuries.
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Arrests have yet to be made, and a motive has not been released by authorities.
Tuesday violence marks the 18th event in the city in 2021 in which four or more people were killed in a single incident.
From Friday to Sunday, three people were killed, and an additional 42 others were wounded throughout Chicago. In one spree, a pair of gunmen opened fire on a group standing on a sidewalk, killing a 29-year-old woman and injuring nine others.
A 22-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman were also killed in the violent three-day period.
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The Windy City has seen a 5% uptick in murder, a 25% jump in sexual assault, and a 9% increase in motor vehicle theft, compared to numbers from the same time frame in 2020.
