CHICAGO NEGRO VIOLENCE: 2 dead, 10 wounded in city shootings

Two people died and at least 10 others, including a 12-year-old boy, have been wounded in South, West and North side shootings since Wednesday afternoon, Chicago police said.

A 25-year-old man, identified as Eric Washington, was shot to death in the University Village/Little Italy neighborhood, and another man was injured in the same attack about 12:05 p.m., police and the Cook County medical examiner�s office said.

The attack happened in the 1200 block of West 13th Street. Six people have been killed within a block of the parking lot where the shooting happened since 2009, according to city records.

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