A 16-year-old boy who died in a shooting in Old Town was a member of the tumbling team coached by Secretary of State Jesse White, who remembered the teen Friday as a "highly respected and well-mannered young man."



"We lost one of our tumblers to street violence today," White said.



Devonshay Lofton was walking in the 1300 block of North Cleveland Avenue around 9:20 p.m. Thursday when the two people rode up on bicycles and opened fire, striking him in the chest, authorities said.



A police officer responding to the scene wounded himself in the foot when his gun went off as he stepped out of his car, authorities said.



Lofton was pronounced dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said Police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines. The officer was taken in good condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.



White said he was shocked by the news of Lofton's death, which occurred the same day White celebrated the opening of a field house named after the secretary of state.



White said he worked with Lofton for six years on the tumbling team and did not believe he was affiliated with any gang. He said the shooting was likely an accident or an act of random violence.



"It was a mistaken identity," White said. "Otherwise someone was trying to earn his stripes by doing a bad thing."



No one was in custody Friday, police said.



In other overnight shootings:



• An 18-year-old man was shot and killed in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood on the South Side around 9:40 p.m. Thursday, police said.



Kamaal Burton was walking on the sidewalk with another man near 133rd Street and Langley Avenue when two people came up and shot at them, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.



Burton was hit in the left side and was pronounced dead on the scene, Gaines said. He collapsed near a parking lot between 133rd Street and Place, between Langley and Corliss avenues.



• Three people were wounded in the 7500 block of South Eggleston Avenue in the Gresham neighborhood at about 6 p.m., said Police News Affairs Officer Bari Lemmon.



A man, 36, and a woman, 45, were each shot in the thigh and taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, where their conditions were stabilized. A man, 32, suffered a graze wound to the arm and declined to be taken to a hospital, Gaines said.



• Later in the night, a 19-year-old man was injured in a shooting in the Burnside neighborhood around 11:30 p.m. The man was shot in the arm near East 95th Street and South Martin Luther King Drive, Gaines said.



He walked to the nearby Advocate Trinity Hospital, where he is listed as stable, Gaines said. The man told police he was walking on the street when an attacker came up and shot him.



No one was in custody, Gaines said.



• Early Friday morning, a 23-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman were injured in a shooting in the 8000 block of South Ellis Avenue in the East Chatham neighborhood around 2 a.m.



The two were walking on the sidewalk in the area when someone opened fire, Gaines said.



The man was wounded in the leg and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. The woman, who was shot in the back, was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital. Both were listed in serious condition, Gaines said.