Bloody Chicago Weekend!

Besides the NATO summit and surrounding protests in the downtown area of Chicago, the violence that has and continues to erupt in the surrounding neighborhoods has taken it's toll again. 14 year old Alejandro Jaime was killed in the Brighton Park neighborhood. Alejandro was riding his bicycle with an 11-year-old friend when a car struck their bikes causing them to fall and run. The two youths began to run and one of the occupants of the vehicle got out and firet a shot killing Alejandro. Alejandro was shot in his back at 9pm in the 2600 block of West 37th Place. The other 11-year-old reportedly was beaten but was able to flee.

Overnight shootings included:

• Three men, two woman were wounded and one man were killed in the 11600 block of South Peoria. Melvin Jacobs, 23, was pronounced dead at 5 am at Advocate Trinity Hosptial. The other men, ages 26, 25 and 32, were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center. A 37-year-old woman was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of cook county and the other woman, 35, refused treatment at the scene after suffering a graze wound to her upper back.
• Just after 8:30 p.m. Friday, a 32-year-old man sitting in a van in the 600 block of East 79th Street in the Chatham neighborhood was shot in his side, police said. He was taken to Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center and his condition was stable, police said.
• About 9:20 p.m., a woman walked into Weiss Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm, police said. She was shot near the intersection of Southport Avenue and Irving Park Road in the Graceland West neighborhood on the North Side, police said. 
• About 10 p.m., a man and two women were wounded in the 5600 block of South Winchester Avenue in the West Englewood neighborhood, police said. 
• A 26-year-old man who was shot in the arm and leg was taken to Stroger hospital in good condition, police said. A 19-year-old woman shot in the abdomen was also taken to Stroger, in serious condition. A 23-year-old woman who was wounded in the arm was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in good condition.
• At about the same time, a 27-year-old man was shot twice in an alley in the 3200 block of North Keeler Avenue in the Kilbourn Park neighborhood by a gunman in a passing vehicle, according to police and the Chicago Fire Department.
• The victim, who suffered gunshots to the groin and the arm, was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where police said his condition stabilized.
• At about 11:50 p.m., police said a 20-year-old man was wounded in the arm in the 7900 block of South Drexel Avenue in the East Chatham neighborhood, police said. He was taken to Stroger in stable condition.

This is only one day into the weekend.