Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel & Police Supt. Eddie Johnson COMPLETELY SILENCE ON SOARING & UNENDING CHICAGO NEGRO VIOLENCE - 08/06/2016 - Overnight Black Violence Leads to at least 4 MURDERED and at least 17 Shot & Wounded

Four colored folks with checkered pasts were killed, including a 16-year-old boy, and at least 17 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday morning, police said.

A 6-year-old boy was playing with a friend in his Park Manor neighborhood when the gunfire that fatally wounded the 16-year-old boy started around the corner.

Standing with his father Friday afternoon, Zackariah Reed wore a Batman T-shirt and used his fingers to count out how many gunshots he heard.

“That’s eight of them,” he said. “I don’t like gunshots.”

The fatal shooting Zackariah heard happened about 12:40 p.m. in the 6700 block of South Wabash Street, said Officer Bari Lemmon, a Chicago police spokeswoman.

The 16-year-old boy was shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene, Lemmon said.

After the shooting, a handful of officers stood over the teen’s body in the back of an overgrown vacant lot between two homes.

Neighbors watched police from their porches as a helicopter hummed over the otherwise quiet block. One woman read a book while sitting on her porch. A man near the end of the block mowed lawns. Next to the vacant lot, two men on a porch shared a cigarette.

Zackariah’s father, Victor Reed, 64, said he was inside his apartment making Kool-Aid when he heard the gunfire. He counted 12 to 14 gunshots that could have been fired from three different caliber guns, he said.

A neighbor told Zackariah and his friend to get inside the gate of their apartment complex, Reed said. The children made it to Reed’s apartment just as he was going outside to look for them.

“My concern is all the kids being shot,” Reed said. “That’s what brought me to the window. I came out to look for my baby to make sure he was safe.”

Three other people have been killed in Chicago shootings since Friday morning.

About 4:25 a.m. Saturday, a 25-year-old man was shot multiple times in the head and pronounced dead in the 11600 block of South Torrence Avenue in South Deering. The shooting may have been the result of a home invasion, and investigators are considering it domestic-related, police said.

At 3:25 a.m., a 32-year-old man was killed and another man was wounded in a shooting near the only still-occupied rowhouses of the notorious former Cabrini-Green housing development. Police in the area heard gunfire and responded to the 800 block of North Cambridge Avenue to find a 32-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the head and chest. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and pronounced dead.

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