Police said, shortly before 1 p.m., four men were near the sidewalk near 59th Street and Ashland Avenue, when two gunmen walked up and started shooting.

Four people were killed and 14 others wounded in a "deplorable and cowardly" mass shooting in Chicago on Wednesday night, according to the police superintendent.

A man was killed in a drive-by shooting Thursday afternoon in the South Deering neighborhood on Chicago’s Far South Side. Reginald Edwards, 21, was outside about 1:20 p.m. in the 9900 block of South Bensley Avenue when a vehicle pulled alongside him and someone inside opened fire, Chicago police said.