Charles Nelson had just gotten out the door on his way to a concert in Millennium Park Monday afternoon when gunfire exploded up his South Side block. The 71-year-old got down to the ground and waited through what he estimated was a full minute of shooting.

“Please call 911,” he texted his neighbors. “Over 30 gunshots.”

When Nelson got up again, almost 40 shell casings lay in the street.

Five people were injured, one seriously, in the Monday afternoon shooting in the Bronzeville neighborhood at the northwest corner of the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Service Center, authorities said.

Police officers responded to a call of a person shot at the 700 block of East 43rd Street just before 3:30 p.m. and found five victims had been struck by gunfire, Chicago police said. A woman in her 60

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