The bystander and a second person who died were among four people shot about 3:30 p.m. near 43rd Street and Rockwell Street in the Brighton Park neighborhood near Shields Elementary School.
Authorities said several known gang members were gathered in front of a taco stand on Rockwell when a silver car drove through an alley next to the business and parked across the street at the mouth of an alley.
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Then at least two gunmen got out of the car and opened fire on the group, fatally striking a 17-year-old boy named Daniel H. Torres and a 47-year-old man a short distance away, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner`s office.
An 18-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition while another 17-year-old boy who was shot in the face and neck was in critical condition at Mount Sinai, police said.
The 47-year-old suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead on the scene and Torres, of the 4200 block of South Fairfield Avenue, also suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai.
At the scene, the body of the bystander, identified by neighbors and Ald. Raymond Lopez, 15th, as "Arturo," was lying in snow underneath a blue covering being dusted with snowfall in a curb outside a corner store called Mercado 43.
The man was a well-known figure who could be seen walking with a limp through the neighborhood, a form of therapy for a stroke he suffered several years ago, his close friends said.
5 dead, at least 13 wounded in city shootings
18 December 2016
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Five people were killed, including an innocent bystander, and at least 13 others were wounded Friday in city shootings.
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