5 shot in West Garfield Park, police saySun-Times Wireon June 16, 2021 at 4:10 am

The incident happened in the 3800 block of West Monroe Street, according to Chicago fire officials.

Five people were wounded in a shooting Tuesday night in West Garfield Park in the city’s second mass shooting of the day, according to Chicago police.

The incident happened in the 3800 block of West Monroe Street, according to Chicago fire officials.

A 39-year-old man was struck in the groin and taken to a hospital in critical condition, according to preliminary information from Chicago police. Another man, 40, was taken to Mount Sinai, where his condition was stabilized. A third male was also injured, but police didn’t provide details on his condition.

Two females were also shot, one of whom suffered multiple gunshot wounds to her back, police said. Information on their conditions was not immediately released.

No arrests have been made. Area Four detectives are investigating.

The shooting is the second on Tuesday with at least four gunshot victims, and it is the fourth mass shooting in Chicago in a little over a week.

Earlier Tuesday, four people were fatally shot and four others wounded inside a house in the 6200 block of South Morgan in Englewood. Two of the people who died in that attack were mothers. Another was a man who had recently lost close relatives.

The incident prompted Mayor Lori Lightfoot to say Chicago has joined a “club of cities to which no one wants to belong: cities with mass shootings.”

Nearly 300 of the 390 homicides in Cook County so far this year have been in Chicago, according to the medical examiner’s office. The county had recorded 342 during the same period last year.

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