And Eight More Wounded

The monster keeps peeking out:

• Eight people were shot in three separate incidents on the West Side within less than 15 minutes this evening including a shooting near the Puerto Rican Day festival, authorities said.

  In the first shooting incident, five people were shot in the 2200 block of South Kolin Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood just after 6 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs [...]. Police initially found three men in their 20s with gunshot wounds at the scene...

  Two additional people were later located who had been shot in the foot...

  [...] About 10 minutes later in the Humboldt Park neighborhood blocks from where the Puerto Rican Day festival was taking place, two men were shot in the 1100 block of North Washtenaw Avenue, [...]. A 20-year-old man was shot in the stomach, and another man or boy was shot in the leg.

  [...] A few hours later, a woman or girl was shot in the 1300 block of North Homan Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, said News Affairs [...]. Her condition and age were not immediately known.

Three shot within walking distance of the fest? We recall a certain south side ethnic parade that was canceled for outrageous drunkenness, not for people actually being shot.

Things that make you go, "Hmmm."