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Two people were shot after the funeral of a reputed gang member in the Park Manor neighborhood on the South Side this afternoon, police said, with a minister at the services tweeting, "This is Crazy."
The two were shot outside St. Columbanus Church in the 300 block of East 71st Street, across the street from the A.A. Rayner & Sons Funeral Home. They were taken in critical condition to Stroger, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Will Knight.
The shooting occurred after the funeral, according to the minister who was presiding, the Rev. Corey Brooks.
"I just preached a funeral and gunfire has broke out and I believe people have been shot," Brooks tweeted. "Please pray I believe people have been hit it is Chaos about 500 people here. This is Crazy!!"
Brooks is the pastor who spent weeks on the rooftop of an abandoned motel last winter in an effort to get it torn down to make way for a community center in the Woodlawn neighborhood.
One witness said she saw someone firing at two people outside the church.
Deborah Echols-Moore said there were several hundred mourners in the sanctuary of the church when she heard gunshots. “We thought it was someone banging on the seats,” but soon realized it was gunshots, Echols-Moore said.
People panicked and made a rush to get out of the church. "A lady fell on me.”
The funeral was for a 32-year-old man who was shot last week at an apartment building in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side.
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