By The Associated Press
A 25-year-old woman was killed and six other people were wounded early Sunday in a shooting in Chicago during a memorial service for a man who died in a car crash, police said.
A large group of people had gathered at 1 a.m. to mark the fourth anniversary of the fatal crash, when an argument began that ended in gunfire, Adnardo Gutierrez, deputy chief of the Chicago Police Department, told WLS-TV.
Seven people were shot and one of them, a 25-year-old woman, was pronounced dead at a hospital, he said. The other six victims were hospitalized, one in critical condition.
The shooting took place on Chicago's West Side in the early hours of Sunday. Getty Images
"They were celebrating. Something happened, there was a verbal altercation and someone started shooting or several people shot," Gutierrez said during a news conference Sunday.
He said they are investigating how many people were shot, but that the shots were fired by one or more people attending the remembrance event.
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Gutierrez said a witness told officers an argument took place before the shooting, which occurred when the group was on a street in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago's west side.
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Among the victims is a 29-year-old man who was hospitalized in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the chest. The other five people, a 17-year-old girl, a 28-year-old woman and three men aged 27, 28 and 29, were hospitalized and in good condition, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
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Police detectives were investigating the incident and no one had been arrested as of noon Sunday.
Gutierrez added that investigators were still trying to locate witnesses to interview. He asked that anyone with information about the incident contact police.
