3 Killed, 1 Wounded In Separate Hyde Park Shootings Thursday Night 18%
By Maxwell Evans42%
7/24/2026, 3:39:57 PM
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HYDE PARK — Three people were killed and a fourth wounded in two shootings just hours apart Thursday in Hyde Park, police said.
In the first shooting, which took place about 5:30 p.m.
Thursday along the Midway Plaisance, a 27-year-old woman and 24-year-old man were killed.
They were found inside a car on the 5900 block of South Ellis Avenue, each with one gunshot wound to their head, police said.
A weapon was found at the scene, and the victims were taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where they were pronounced dead, police said.
The shooting appears to stem from “a domestic violence incident,” and in speaking with police, “their assumption” at this time is that it was a murder-suicide, Ald.
Desmon Yancy (5th) told Block Club Friday afternoon.
About 11 p.m., a 25-year-old man was killed and a 25-year-old woman was wounded in a drive-by shooting near Promontory Point.
They were sitting in a parked car in the 5400 block of South Shore Drive when someone shot at them multiple times from another car, police said.
“I’m emotional to think about two young people, just hanging out on a Thursday night, to have their [life] ended and their families’ lives changed forever for some senseless act of violence,” Yancy said regarding the Shore Drive shooting.
“As a younger person, I spent my share of time hanging out in a car at the Point.
… [The shooting] reminded me we’re in a moment today where there seems to be less care and concern for each other.”
The man was shot in his stomach and pronounced dead at UChicago Medical Center, while the woman was shot in her right shoulder and taken to UChicago in fair condition, police said.
Marquinn McDonald, 2nd District Council member on the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, said he was patrolling the area “as I normally do per my role” when he was alerted to the Shore Drive shooting.
McDonald witnessed University of Chicago and Chicago police attempt to administer aid to the man who was killed and saw the woman escorted into an ambulance, he said.
He learned of the two people killed on Ellis Avenue only after visiting the Shore Drive scene, he said.
Also in the 5th Ward Thursday, in nearby South Shore, two more people were wounded Thursday in shootings two hours and two blocks apart.
About 8 p.m., a 67-year-old man accidentally shot himself in his leg in the 6700 block of South Cornell Avenue, according to a preliminary police investigation.
About 10:15 p.m., a 36-year-old man was shot in his leg while sitting in his parked car in the 6900 block of South Cornell Avenue.
The man took himself to UChicago hospital and was listed in good condition, police said.
Thursday’s shootings highlight the need for a permanent city department of gun violence reduction , Yancy said.
He visited Ald.
Ronnie Mosley’s (21st) office yesterday to advocate for an ordinance — set to be sponsored by Mosley — that would do so, he said.
The Hyde Park shootings were an example each of “community violence and interpersonal violence, but the common denominator in both of those incidents was access to guns,” Yancy said.
McDonald, who in May helped render aid to two teens shot just blocks from the site of the Shore Drive shooting , said gun violence in the community has been “infuriating, exhausting [and] beyond heartbreaking” to witness.
“ The numbers are down , but that means nothing to someone that just lost their loved one,” McDonald said.
“I’m tired of victims, I’m tired of bodies … I’m tired of bloodstained clothes, I’m tired of red tape and yellow tape.”
“There is some great [violence prevention] work being done, but a lot more needs to be done.”
Youth from It Takes A Village Leadership Academy in Bronzeville, GoodKids MadCity and elsewhere on the South Side pose for a picture during a “peace walk” against gun violence July 24.
Credit: Provided
McDonald joined teens from It Takes A Village Leadership Academy in a youth-led peace walk against gun violence through Bronzeville Friday morning, less than 12 hours after the shooting.
He encouraged Hyde Parkers and others across the South Side to contribute their time to local violence prevention initiatives.
“Pray and get active,” McDonald said.
“It’s going to take us all.”
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