On a block in Lawndale, a woman sat alone in her white car Friday night, staring at the spot where she saw a 15-year-old boy fall to the ground.

“I thought he was dead at first,” said the woman, who identified herself as Rosa. “It makes me sad, because right where he got shot was where I was standing. I don’t even want to hang outside anymore.”

Rosa remained in her car parked in the 1500 block of South Sawyer Avenue for over an hour, watching the crime scene where Chicago police said the teen boy and a 27-year-old man were shot while walking on the sidewalk around 9:45 p.m.

The teen was hit in the right leg, while the man was struck in the left leg; both were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where their conditions were stabilized. No arrests have been made, according to police.

Rosa said she lives nearby and was visiting a friend on the block when she heard gunshots and saw the boy collapse on the sidewalk near the southeast end of Sawyer, a stretch that soon became encircled with red crime tape. She also witnessed a vehicle zooming away just as the man who was shot ran to the gangway between Sawyer and Kedzie Avenue, she said.

After the rain ceased late Friday, multiple groups of people came outside on Sawyer to socialize, injecting the street and porches with chatter.

As Rosa looked at the crime scene, she talked about her four children — two teens and two 9-year-olds — and of her desire to leave Chicago.

“I worry about my kids,” she said. “The kids can’t even play no more. All it took was a couple of warm days, and there it goes.”

The double shooting was the city’s first instance of gun violence reported this Memorial Day weekend. At least 11 people were shot overnight from Friday into Saturday.

Shootings spanned as far south as the Gresham neighborhood on 76th Street, as far west as Cicero Avenue in Austin and as far north as the Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side, where a 25-year-old man was in critical condition after being shot at a gas station.

The 25-year-old was attacked by a gunman just before midnight at the gas station in the 5400 block of West Diversey Avenue. He was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center with a gunshot wound in his face, police said.

Yellow police tape blocked off the gas station, where a gray SUV sat inside the crime scene. Two men and a woman waited behind the tape, taking phone calls and checking in with an officer on when they were allowed to leave.

“I’m not able to go home,” the woman said into her phone early Saturday. In another phone call, she later explained, “I was just trying to help.”

Also, at about midnight, a 31-year-old man was wounded on the West Side in the 300 block of North Cicero Avenue.

Police said the man was standing on the sidewalk, heard shots and soon after felt pain. He was driven by a friend to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park but was later transferred to Stroger Hospital with wounds to the right arm and leg.

About 12:40 a.m., a 26-year-old man was shot in the left shoulder and leg in the 1400 block of East 70th Street. He was standing in an alley when he was approached by someone who opened fire. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized, police said.

The next bout of gunfire that wounded multiple people was reported around 2 a.m. Saturday in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

Police said that around 2 a.m., someone in a black SUV opened fire at a sedan traveling south in the 4400 block of South Western Avenue. Three people were wounded: a 17-year-old girl shot in the right arm, a 19-year-old woman struck multiple times in her body and a 42-year-old man also suffering multiple gunshot wounds in the body.

They were all taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where the girl’s condition was stabilized and the other two were in critical condition, police said.

About the same time as the Brighton Park shooting, a 45-year-old man was shot on the South Side in the 7400 block of South Langley Avenue, police said.

The man was walking when he heard shots and felt pain. He then walked to St. Bernard Hospital with a gunshot wound to the buttocks. He was expected to be transferred to Stroger Hospital once his condition was stabilized, police said.

Also overnight, a woman was shot around 11 p.m. on Friday while riding in a car next to Maggie Daley Park.

Someone in a white SUV fired at a Nissan headed north in the 300 block of North Lake Shore Drive, wounding the 20-year-old sitting in the backseat. She was hit in the right hand and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where her condition was stabilized, police said.

As of 10 a.m., officers could not find evidence of a crime scene along Lake Shore Drive, and none of the foot officers or traffic units stationed in the area heard the incident. Despite requests, the driver of vehicle has not yet brought it to CPD for processing, according to a police spokesman.

The latest overnight attack happened shortly before 4 a.m. in the 7600 block of South May Street. The male victim was taken to St. Bernard Hospital but was expected to be taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center with wounds to the abdomen and left arm, police said.

No one was in custody.

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