South Side Blows Up (UPDATES)

Of course, that's almost a regular occurrence most days:

• Three people were killed and six others wounded in shootings on the South Side this afternoon and evening, authorities said.
  
  The most recent slaying happened about 6:48 p.m. when a male victim was shot dead on the 7500 block of South Carpenter Street, according to Police News Affairs Officer Daniel O'Brien. There was no information available immediately about the circumstances leading up to the attack.
  
  A source identified the victim as a 35-year-old man who had been sitting on a lawn chair near the embankment of some railroad, apparently drinking beer.

Time to ban beer.

And what was the high temperature today? Not that that had anything to do with this outbreak. But it did push us to about even with May of 2011.

UPDATE: Add a fourth to the body count:

• A 57-year-old woman was shot to death in the South Chicago neighborhood, one of four people killed in South Side shootings since about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
  Nine others survived attacks during a period of about 12 hours in which 13 people were shot, police said.

Another hot one on tap tonight.

UPDATE #2: Add a fifth - one of the wounded died.