A Man Went To The Stroger ER With A 4-Day-Old Gunshot Wound Monday

By Rachel Cromidas in News on Apr 17, 2017 5:40PM

Chicago's Easter weekend violence tally is disturbingly high, and indicative of a well-known trend: when the temperatures start to heat up in Chicago, so too does the city's gun violence.

At least 45 people were shot over Easter weekend, two of them fatally, according to reports. Now a new report from the Stroger Hospital emergency room shows that a man was shot in the shoulder Thursday evening—but he didn't go to the ER to treat his wound until Monday morning, almost four days later.

Police told the Tribune that a 32-year-old man entered the hospital with a gunshot wound in his left shoulder. He said he was shot in West Englewood at 6:20 p.m. Thursday, in the 6500 block of South Paulina Street. Area South detectives are investigating the shooting, according to the Tribune.