CHICAGO—Chicago police say five people were shot, and four of them killed at an apartment building on the city's Northwest Side. One woman was taken to hospital in a critical condition but died on Sunday, Oct.13.
Riccio says the man first went into an apartment and shot and killed three men and a woman as they ate dinner. The man then went to a separate unit in the building and shot another woman. Police say that victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition. She has since died. All the victims were adults.
A weapon was recovered. Riccio says the man had a history of complaints from other residents, but investigators "don't know what set him off."
Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the shooting "devastating."
The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified one of the four victims killed Saturday as Tsvetanka Kostadinova.
The woman who initially survived but died on Sunday was 53-year-old Jolanta Topolska.
Facts About Crime in the United States
Violent crime in the United States has fallen sharply over the past 25 years, according to both the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) (pdf).While the overall rate of violent crime has seen a steady downward drop since its peak in the 1990s, there have been several upticks that bucked the trend. Between 2014 and 2016, the murder rate increased by more than 20 percent, to 5.4 per 100,000 residents, from 4.4, according to an Epoch Times analysis of FBI data. The last two-year period that the rate soared so quickly was between 1966 and 1968.