Multiple shootings occurred throughout the Chicago area leaving several people dead as many people continued their Independence Day celebrations.

Less than an hour earlier, a 30-year-old man was standing in the street with a crowd in the 8400 block of South Kerfoot Avenue when he was shot in the torso, police said. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he died, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A drive-by shooting in a Philadelphia neighborhood on the Fourth of July has left one person dead and injured seven others, while police in Chicago are investigating two mass shootings that wounded 14