A shooting early Saturday during a large gathering at a suburban Chicago hotel left one man dead and several other people wounded, police said.
The shooting occurred during �some type of large get-together� among guests at the Indian Lakes Hotel in Bloomingdale, according to Bloomingdale Public Safety Director Frank Giammarese. Investigators were still piecing together what happened, he said, but �it appears that there were a couple of different groups attending different events at the hotel� when �something transpired and that�s when the shooting took place, mostly in the hallways at the hotel.�
People were fleeing the hotel when officers arrived about 2:35 a.m. in response to a report of shots fired on the fifth floor. Officers found �multiple apparent gunshot victims� inside, police said in a news release.
James McGill Jr., 27, of Chicago, was pronounced dead at a hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner�s office, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
As many as six other people were hit by gunfire, but the exact number was unknown because several people fled � including one or more possible suspects, Giammarese said. No police officers were shot, he said.
He said there have been �ongoing concerns� about large gatherings at the hotel in the recent past.
Located about 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of downtown Chicago, the five-story Indian Lakes Hotel features 300 recently renovated rooms and more than 7,000 square feet (650 square meters) of event space, according to the resort�s website.
(AP)
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1 Dead What a horrific way to commemorate the 6th Commandment which was read on the same day as this shooting, not to mention that this may also have been a violation of the 4th Commandment and the 10th Commandment on the same day that they were read.