Saturday shootings left two men dead and eight wounded across the city.

The first fatal shooting took place about 3:45 p.m. in the 700 block of West 69th Street in the city's Englewood neighborhood when two gunmen opened fire at two men standing across the South Side street, police said.

A 31-year-old man was shot in the back and died later at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, according to police. A second male, 21, was shot once in the right arm.

Kenneth Anthony, 31, of the 400 block of West 66th Place,was pronounced dead at 4:44 p.m. at Stroger, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Chicago Fire Department officials said they took one victim to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and the other to Stroger hospital. Both were initially listed in serious-to-critical condition, fire officials said.

Fifteen or 20 shell casings were found at the scene, police said.

Sources said the incident was gang-related. Area South detectives are investigating.

About 8:05 p.m., a 23-year-old man was shot in the chest in the 900 block of Windsor Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood on the North Side. He was standing on the street when someone came up and shot him, police said.

He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

A spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office said the man has been identified as Corteze Reed, of the 1900 block of West Chase Avenue. He was pronounced dead at 10:05 p.m.

Most recently, a 17-year-old boy got into a dispute with someone in the 7800 block of South Greenwood Avenue just before midnight Saturday, said Police News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada. As the boy was walking away from the fight, the other person shot him in the right leg, Estrada said. The boy was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was in good condition.

Earlier, a 20-year-old man was shot in the back about 11:15 p.m. at 54th Street and Harper Avenue in the Hyde Park neighborhood on the South Side. He made it to the University of Chicago Hospital without the assistance of paramedics and is in good condition, police said.

Someone shot a 19-year-old man in the thigh about 10:20 p.m. in the 4700 block of South Western Avenue in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. Police responded to that area because someone called 911 to say a person had been shot but they didn't find anyone. Later, a man walked into Christ Medical Center - 48 blocks south and 20 blocks west - with a gunshot wound and said he had been shot near 47th and Western.

Two men were dropped off at Holy Cross Hospital with gunshot wounds after they were shot about 8:15 p.m. near the intersection of 66th Street and Fairfield Avenue in the Marquette Park neighborhood, about a block from the Southwest Side hospital. A 20-year-old remained at the hospital with a leg wound while another 20-year-old man was stabilized at Holy Cross and transferred to Stroger hospital.

In another shooting Saturday evening, a 17-year-old boy was shot in the jaw about 7:27 p.m. in the 9300 block of South Ada Street in the Brainerd neighborhood on the South Side, said News Affairs Officer Stacey Cooper. He was listed in critical condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Cooper said.

An additional attack about 7:36 p.m. Saturday evening wounded two men in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side, according to Cooper. A 19-year-old man was shot in the back and a 20-year-old man was also wounded in the shooting, which happened in the 500 block of North Laramie Avenue, said Cooper. Their conditions were not available.

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