3 killed, 5 wounded in mass shooting on Chicago's Southwest Side

Eight people were shot, and three of them were killed, in the Southwest Side's Chicago Lawn neighborhood December 2 afternoon, Report informs via CBS News.

Late Monday, it was unclear whom Chicago Police were looking for in connection with the mass shooting, or what led up it all. Police spent most of the evening at the scene gathering evidence and surveillance, and conducting interviews with anyone who may have been inside the house to witness the carnage.

It was a chilling juxtaposition as Christmas lights and decorations were overtaken by police lights and crime scene tape.

Police said at 2:10 p.m., police were called for a shooting in a house in the 3500 block of West 59th Street, between St. Louis and Central Park avenues in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood.

Responding officers found eight people—four men and four women, all between the ages of 20 and 35—had been shot. Three of the four men were dead, according to Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Jon Hein.

Police believe a social gathering was going on at the time of the shooting, Hein said. There were no reports that any children were present.

Of those who died, a man of an unspecified age was shot in the head, chest, right thigh, and right wrist and died at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn; and a 26-year-old man and another man whose age was not specified were both shot multiple times throughout the body and were pronounced dead on the scene.

As to the survivors, a 25-year-old man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition with a gunshot wound to the left thigh. A 27-year-old woman was shot in the head and was taken to the same hospital in critical condition.

A 31-year-old man was shot in the abdomen and self-transported to UI Health University of Illinois Chicago Medical Center, where he was in good condition. A 21-year-old woman was shot once in the groin and self-transported to the same hospital.

A 24-year-old woman was shot twice in her shoulder, and once each in her right hip, right thigh, left hip, and left thigh. She was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious condition.

Shell casings were located in the basement of the house where the mass shooting happened, along with the victims.