ခ်ီကာဂိုုျမိုု.မွာ ပစ္ခတ္မွုုျဖစ္။ လူ ၆ဦးေသးဆံုုးျပီး အနဲဆံုုးတဒါဇင္ခန္. ဒဏ္ရာရ။

6 dead, at least a dozen wounded in less than 24 hours in Chicago

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Aug. 23, 2012 - Chicago, IL, USA - United States - Paramedics treat multiple gunshot victims in the 7800 block of south Essex Avenue, August 23, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois. (Credit Image: © Devlin Brown/Chicago Tribune/MCT/ZUMAPRESS.com)

By NBC News staff and wire reports

Six people were killed and at least a dozen wounded in shootings that started Friday afternoon in Chicago and continued Saturday, police say.

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The Chicago Tribune reported that on Saturday afternoon two masked assailants opened fire in the Chatham neighborhood on the city’s south side.
A 20-year-old man died at the scene and an 18-year-old man shot in the leg and lower arm died later at a hospital, officials said. A teen girl wounded in the shooting was in serious condition, they said.

Advertise | AdChoiceThe gunman ran off and got into a car after the shooting, police said.About 2:30 a.m. Saturday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, a man later identified as Stephin Wilkins was fatally wounded during a robbery in the South Side Kenwood neighborhood. Wilkins, who is in his 20s, was sitting in a vehicle with his girlfriend when two men with a handgun tried to rob them, police said. Wilkins was shot trying to fight the robbers, police said.Late Friday night, also in the Chatham neighborhood, Phillip McCall, 34, was shot twice in the back and died later at a hospital, officials said.