At least two drive-by gunmen sprayed more than 100 bullets into a large crowd gathered outside in Roseland late Friday, leaving 12 people wounded in a mass shooting that launched a violent start to Father’s Day weekend in Chicago. By sunrise Saturday, Chicago had already recorded more shooting victims than were reported during the entire Father’s Day weekend last year.
“Please pray for this mega violent night,” Pastor Donovan Price wrote on social media early Saturday. “Shootings everywhere mass shooting near my house/church, shooting on the train…madness Pray”
The drive-by unfolded shortly after 11 p.m. in the 200 block of West 95th Street. Chicago police officers responding to reports of gunfire found two victims at the scene: a 32-year-old woman who suffered two gunshot wounds to her back and a 44-year-old man who sustained four graze wounds to his back. Both were taken to hospitals in good condition, according to CPD. As officers secured the area, additional victims began arriving at hospitals across the city and suburbs, bringing the total number of wounded to 12…