4 critically injured in separate South Side shootings

Officials said that four people were critically wounded in three separate shootings.

In the first shooting, a man was shot and critically wounded in a shooting in the Park Manor neighborhood, authorities said.

The man, 27, was in the 600 block of East 71st Street about 6:10 p.m. when he was shot in the head, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Darryl Baety.

The man was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Chief Joe Roccasalva.

In the second shooting, a man was shot on the 7700 block of South Saginaw Avenue at about 7:30 p.m., officials said.

The man was taken in serious-to-critical condition to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Roccasalva said.

At about 7:42 p.m., two men in their 20s were critically injured after a shooting on the 1500 block of South Karlov Avenue, Roccasalva said.

Police were investigating.