Just before 8 p.m., two groups of people were in the park when an argument broke out and shots were fired, Deputy Chief Fred Melian with the Chicago Police Department said at a news conference in the park just across from the University of Chicago Medicine. emergency room. Paramedics responded to East 51st Street and South Champlain Avenue and transported five men and one woman to the University of Chicago Medicine, police said. A 19-year-old man was shot in the right shoulder and taken alone to Insight Hospital in good condition, police said. Another man, 46, and a woman, 33, were transported to U of C in good condition with injuries to her right calf and right arm, respectively. Chicago police officers work at the scene where several people were shot in Washington Park on September 13, 2022. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) One of the two men who died was identified as Lionel Coward, 43, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was shot in the back of the head and pronounced dead at 8:42 p.m. at the U. of C. The other man who died — a 20-year-old — was initially taken to the U. of C. in critical condition. He was pronounced dead at 9:55 p.m. with multiple gunshot wounds to his body, according to the medical examiner’s office and police. Not yet identified. The other victims taken by paramedics to U. of C. were all in good condition. A 30-year-old man was shot in the left shin, a 39-year-old man was shot in the right ankle, a 27-year-old woman was shot in the upper left thigh, and a 22-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to his left elbow. No one was in custody as of Wednesday morning.
