CHICAGO — Three people attending a funeral on Saturday were wounded in a drive-by shooting outside a Chicago church, authorities said.
The victims were at the Universal Community Missionary Baptist Church in the city’s Roseland neighborhood when shots rang out at about 2:30 p.m. CDT, WLS-TV reported.
Family members were attending a funeral service for anti-violence Mike Nash and were gathering to take a photograph outside the church when a gunman in a gray sedan opened fire, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
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A 20-year-old man was shot in the abdomen, shoulder and leg, and a 37-year-old man was struck in the right thigh, police told the newspaper. Both men were taken to Roseland Community Hospital. A 25-year-old man shot in the back was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
All three men were listed in good condition, police said.
“On a day when people should be coming together, should be growing and loving, and now there’s a community in confusion and chaos,” Pastor Donovan Price told WLS.
Kareem House said he was attending a funeral service for his cousin.
“We’re not even from over here, we don’t know what’s going on,” House, who came from California to attend the service, told the Sun-Times. House said a bullet grazed him but added that he did not need medical attention.
Nash was a “nice guy” who died of a heart attack, House told WLS.
Price said Nash, known as “Big Mike,” was well-known in the area. “Big Mike, everybody knew him, I knew him,” Price told the Sun-Times. “I know he wouldn’t have been happy” about the shooting.
“We’ve got to find out who these individuals are, and I’m saying it over and over again, when these detectives put that paperwork in the state’s attorney’s office, we’re going to have to do more to keep these people inside of there,” community activist Andrew Holmes told WLS. ”And it starts at home,”
Police said they have no suspects in custody, WGN-TV reported. An investigation is ongoing.
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