An early Sunday shooting outside a bar in Chicago left three people dead and one critically injured, police said.
Officers responded to the Belmont Cragin neighborhood in northwest Chicago at around 2:30 a.m. over reports of an altercation that started inside the bar and escalated to a mass shooting.
Police pronounced a 50-year-old man dead at the scene after he suffered gunshot wounds to the head and chest.
The other slain victims were identified as a 26-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman; they died at local hospitals from multiple shots.
A 25-year-old woman was hospitalized in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head.
Authorities said that the suspect fled the scene in a dark vehicle.