At least 15 people today had been shot and wounded, two of them fatally, at a “pop-up” party in a Chicago garage in the early hours on Sunday, police and nearby media reported.
The occasion was held at a tow firm premise converted for parties on the city’s South Side, police stated.
There was a disturbance “among several patrons and gunfire erupted striking multiple people,” police officer Jose Jara stated in an e mail to the Chicago Tribune newspaper, adding the trigger of the shoot-out was not identified.
He stated the people today shot had been aged in between 20 and 44. Four weapons had been identified at the scene, and numerous witnesses had been nevertheless in surgery later Sunday.
The city’s fire service confirmed a provisional toll of two dead.