May 19, 2021- 12:20 p.m.
A man was shot to death and a 14-year-old girl, a high school freshman, suffered a skull fracture after being shot in the head in separate West Side shootings late Tuesday into Wednesday, according to Chicago police.
Police were called to the 3300 block of West Maypole Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood about 9:35 p.m. after an alert from ShotSpotter, the city’s gunshot detection system, according to a police media notification.
Officers found a 47-year-old man “lying on the sidewalk unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds,” according to the police statement. Police said he was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. Edward Glen, who lived in the 6200 block of North Wayne Avenue in the Edgewater neighborhood, was pronounced dead at 10:14 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Late Tuesday, police examined a sidewalk, where at least 11 orange cones marked a crime scene next to a wrought-iron fence.
Police said there were no known witnesses to the shooting and no arrests had been made.
Sometime before 1:50 a.m. Wednesday, a 14-year-old girl was shot in Little Village. Investigators learned about the shooting when her family took her to Amita Health Adventist Medical Center Hinsdale after she said she had been shot while out with a friend, police said. She later was transferred by ambulance to Loyola University Medical Center, officials said.
She appeared to have suffered a graze wound to her head, which caused a skull fracture, police said.
But police have had some difficulty corroborating her explanation.
The teen said she’d been out with another girl, who was driving, police said. A dark-colored car with tinted windows approached theirs, they heard shots and the girl felt pain in her head, she said.
At one point, police said, she said she was unsure how she got the injury. She provided three addresses where the shooting may have taken place, but officers had not located a crime scene at any of them as of Wednesday morning. They were: 26th Street and Lawndale Avenue; 28th Street and Albany Avenue; and 23rd Street and Homan Avenue, police said.
There was no ShotSpotter alert for the area, so police were not sure where the shooting happened, police said.
In their media notification, police said the shooting happened in the 2200 block of South Albany Avenue.
The shooting remained under investigation, and detectives plan to pull video surveillance from the city’s camera system.
In another West Side shooting, a 19-year-old man was wounded in the North Austin neighborhood about 10:45 p.m. Tuesday, police said. He was standing outside when someone in a passing vehicle began shooting and hit him in the knee, according to the online notification. Police did not have a description of the vehicle or the shooter. He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition, police said.
Police also were investigating a shooting that happened on Lake Shore Drive about 11:30 p.m.
No arrests had been made in connection with any of the shootings.
