By SAM CHARLES and JACOB WITTICH
Chicago Sun-Times
Police investigate the scene in Brighton Park where two people were killed and two others wounded in a shooting Friday afternoon. | Sam Charles/Sun-Times
Two men and two teenage boys were walking down the street Friday afternoon in the Brighton Park neighborhood when two men got out of an SUV and started shooting, leaving Arturo Zizumbo and Daniel H. Torres dead, and the other two wounded.
Zizumbo, 47; an 18-year-old man and two 17-year-old boys, including Torres, were walking down the 4300 block of South Rockwell at 3:29 p.m., according to Chicago Police. Two people got out of a silver vehicle parked at the mouth of an alley and opened fired at the group.
Zizumbo suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:40 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 4200 block of South Maplewood.
Torres, of the 4200 block of South Fairfield, was shot multiple times and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:06 p.m., authorities said.
The other two victims were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. The 18-year-old was listed in serious condition with an undisclosed gunshot wound; and the other 17-year-old, shot in the face and neck, was in critical condition, police said.
The older man’s body, covered by a blue sheet, could be seen lying in the street near the curb on the south side of 43rd Street, just east of Rockwell.
A young woman, through tears, screamed at police and asked why his body was still there. An officer approached her at the crime scene tape and told her there was nothing emergency personnel could do to save his life.
“He doesn’t even look like a f—— gangbanger,” she yelled.
Andrew Holmes, a crisis responder and frequent presence at shooting scenes across the city, arrived about 5:30 p.m.
About 30 minutes earlier, four people had been shot at 13th and Kedzie, police said.
“All hell broke loose in the last two hours,” Holmes said.
At one point, officers had to jumpstart a police SUV that had died in the cold so it could block the man’s body from view.
A man who lives near the scene, who didn’t want to be identified, said he heard at least 12 gunshots.