Branda Mitchell was in a South Side alley when five people around her were shot early Friday, including three teens.



"We were just standing around, hanging around, when we heard shots," said Mitchell, 24. "I started running."



She didn't go far. As paramedics worked on the wounded, Mitchell stood nearby, fiddling with her car keys along a row of brick apartment buildings. "I'm kind of shook up. I'm scared. That's why I haven't moved."



As she spoke, paramedics helped a wounded woman into a wheelchair from inside a car, where she apparently had been waiting for help.



Police say a gunman fired into a group of people in the alley in the 8100 block of South Marshfield Avenue in Gresham just before 1:20 a.m.



Two women, 19 and 20, were shot in the leg and taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where their conditions were stabilized. A 17-year-old boy was also shot in the leg, another 17-year-old boy was struck in the back, and a 38-year-old man was shot in the leg, police said. They were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where their conditions was stabilized.



Mitchell, who lives on the Far South Side, said she came to the area to see some friends, a choice she said she regretted. "I have three daughters and I should have stayed at home. My mom is always telling me to stay at home."



Police had been monitoring the area earlier in the evening after learning that a vigil might be held on the block, according to preliminary information from law enforcement sources. Officers got a call of people fighting and discovered the victims.



Witnesses initially told police a shooter confronted the group in the alley, but they later grew uncooperative with investigators, police said.



The attack brought to 14 the number of people shot in Chicago between Thursday afternoon and early Friday. They included a fatal shooting in the West Side's Lawndale neighborhood Thursday afternoon, police said.



A 25-year-old man died after he was shot in the chest in the 4000 block of West 21st Street about 4 p.m. Thursday, police said. A woman was found at the scene, stabbed several times and was taken in serious condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.



Police were investigating the case as a domestic-related attack.



Other shootings:



• Just before 4:50 a.m. Friday, two men were shot on the Far South Side in the West Pullman neighborhood, police said. A 25-year-old was shot in the left leg, and a 21-year-old was shot in the left biceps and left hand in the 11500 block of South Throop Street, police said. They were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital.



• About 1:25 a.m. on the South Side, a 31-year-old man was shot in the shoulder in the South Chicago neighborhood, police said. He was walking in the 2600 block of East 84th Street when someone in a gray car fired at him. The man was taken to Advocate Trinity Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.