Nine people have been shot and killed in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend. They are among at least 57 people shot, according to the police.
Last year, 19 people were killed and more than 100 people were shot over the long Fourth of July weekend.
Three people were shot, one fatally, in a backyard early Sunday morning in Grand Crossing on the South Side. A man was fatally shot while riding inside a vehicle early Sunday in Brighton Park on the Southwest Side. The 26-year-old was struck in the head and arm, and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with multiple gunshot wounds to the head, police said. He was later pronounced dead, officials said.In the first mass shooting, four people were wounded Friday evening in West Garfield Park. Officials responded to a call of multiple people shot about 12:20 a.m. in the 6500 block of South Martin Luther King Drive, a spokesperson with the fire department said.A man, 30, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center with gunshot wounds to the body.Another man, about 25, was shot in the knee and taken to the same hospital.Police say preliminary information indicates that the suspect may have been traveling in a black SUV.
A 17-year-old girl was among two people shot and wounded early Sunday in Bronzeville on the South Side. The man, 45, left his car to exchange information with the driver of the striking vehicle when an argument between the two began, police said. The driver from the striking vehicle then opened fire, striking the man in the neck, officials said.
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