Four shootings -- two of them double homicides -- and a stabbing left 7 people dead Saturday, authorities said.
In what appeared to be the last homicide of the day, a man in his 30s was fatally stabbed about 11:50 p.m. in the South Shore neighborhood, police said.
The stabbing happened during an argument in the 2500 block of East 73rd Street, Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines said.
The man was found unresponsive on the scene.
Less than two hours earlier, about 10:05 p.m., a man was killed in the Englewood neighborhood, making him the sixth person shot day Saturday, police said.
The 38-year-old man died on the scene, in the 7000 block of South Carpenter Street, Gaines said.
Earlier, in the second double homicide of the day, a 16-year-old boy and a 32-year-old man were gunned down in the West Garfield Park neighborhood about 5 p.m., police said.
Officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 4200 block of West Congress Parkway and found the two lying dead outside on the ground, according to the police.
Both victims lived in Chicago, police said.
No one has been arrested.
Police had the crime scene near Genevieve Melody Elementary School taped off at least one block to the north, east and west, while neighbors milled about to get a better look.
On West Van Buren Street, a body could be scene lying in the roadway, near the curb and a bus stop.
A man who only identified himself as the teen victim's uncle said the boy, whose family lived nearby, had simply gone to run an errand.
"He was just going to the store," the man said. "They just killed him just like that."
Later, the man paced back and forth on the sidewalk, shaking his head in disbelief.
"He goes to school and everything," he said to a police officer.
This man and the boy were the 4th and 5th people killed today, and the shooting was the city's second double homicide.
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