Three individuals are useless and 5 others are injured after a “social gathering” in Chicago on Monday, authorities say.

Officers from the Chicago Police Division responded to a name about an individual shot on the 3500 block of West 59th Avenue at roughly 2:10 p.m. on Dec. 2, mentioned Chief of Police Jon P. Hein throughout a press convention.

Upon their arrival, officers requested medical companies after discovering that eight people, described as 4 males and 4 females, had been shot.

In accordance with Hein, all people had been 20 to 35 years previous and had been on the location for what “gave the impression to be a social gathering.” The three deceased people had been male, mentioned Hein.

Whereas not one of the victims have been publicly recognized, native associates WFLD and WGN-TV report, citing the Chicago Police Division, that one of many deceased males was an grownup who sustained gunshot wounds “to the pinnacle, chest, proper thigh, and proper wrist” and died on the hospital.

The 2 others sustained “a number of gunshot wounds to the physique” and had been pronounced useless on the scene, per the shops. PEOPLE reached out to the Chicago Police Division however didn’t instantly hear again.

Whereas Hein mentioned it’s too early to know of a motive, he confirmed throughout Monday’s press convention that “there have been calls of service at this residence.” He vowed that the division would discover the person or people answerable for the “heinous, horrible incident.”

Neighbors advised WLS-TV that a big home social gathering was taking place when photographs had been fired, with witness El Towers telling the outlet: “I began listening to photographs, very loud photographs, perhaps quite a lot of them. I can not recall what number of.”

In an interview with WGN-TV, Towers recalled rising up within the space and expressed that crime has been “unhealthy like this ever since I used to be a child.”

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“Issues haven’t modified out right here. I have been right here my complete life and I all the time bear in mind shootings and other people getting killed. It’s the identical factor 30 years age,” he mentioned.