In January of 2015, 144 people were shot, 28 of them fatally, according to police statistics. In January of 2014, 106 were shot, 20 fatally. In January 2013, 190 were shot, 40 fatally. And in January 2012, 167 were shot, 38 fatally.



Juan C. Gonzalez, 19, was killed around 10:20 p.m. in the Back of the Yards on the South Side, said Officer Hector Alfaro, a Chicago police spokesman.



Police responded to a call of a person shot in the 1700 block of West 47th Street and found Gonzalez lying face down in an alley next to a silver SUV, Alfaro said



Gonzalez, of 5100 block of South Bishop Street, suffered a gunshot wound to his chest, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office. He was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 11:20 p.m.



At least three yellow evidence markers lay on the ground next to the SUV, marking shell casings. About half a dozen neighbors stood on the sidewalk on Wood Street, some taking photos of the crime scene with their cellphones.



One neighbor said he saw the man next to a nearby ATM moments before he was shot. Police said the shooting was being investigated as a possible robbery.



Ten minutes earlier, a 20-year-old man was killed in the North Austin neighborhood on the West Side, Alfaro said.



Deante Dale, of the 1700 block of North Menard Avenue was sitting in the front passenger seat of a parked light blue sedan on the same block where he lived when someone fired shots from a passing black SUV, Alfaro said.



Dale was shot in the left shoulder and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Alfaro said.



In the third fatal shooting Thursday, a 23-year-old man was dropped off at Stroger Hospital around 7:20 p.m. after getting shot in the 4600 block of West Huron Street in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, police said. He had a gunshot wound to the abdomen and was pronounced dead. Authorities identified the man as Martel Howard of the 1500 block of South Manchester Avenue in Westchester.