Chicago weekend shooting toll: 3 dead, 30 wounded


Police officer talks with three teenagers at the scene of a double shooting near the intersection of East 83rd Street and South Ingleside Avenue. (Armando Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)

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Three people were killed and at least 30 were wounded by gunfire in Chicago from Friday evening through Monday morning, police said.

The shootings bring the year's total to at least 1,956, according to an analysis of a Chicago Tribune database on city shootings.

That's an increase of more than 240 over last year and more than 420 over 2013, according to Tribune data.

CAPTIONOvernight violence, Aug. 29-30Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune
A member of the Chicago Police Department works the scene of a double shooting on the 3300 block of West Walnut Street on Aug. 30, 2015.


The city has also seen more murders, according to a Tribune database on homicides. There were at least 317 slaying victims through Monday morning this year, 39 more than last year and 22 more than 2013.

The weekend shootings were spread across the city, from the Rogers Park neighborhood on the Far North Side to the Golden Gate neighborhood on the Far South Side, from the Kennedy Expressway in Bucktown near downtown to West Side neighborhoods like Humboldt Park and Lawndale.

The three slaying victims were:
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• A 34-year-old man who was shot and killed about 4:10 a.m. Saturday in a vehicle in the 2900 block of West Lexington Street in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
• A 44-year-old man who died at Mount Sinai Hospital after being shot about 11:05 p.m. Saturday in the 6000 block of South Throop Street in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side

9 wounded in city shootings

• A 16-year-old boy who died at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn after being shot about 1 a.m. Sunday while standing on a sidewalk in the 8200 block of Ingleside Avenue in the East Chatham neighborhood on the South Side. Tribune reporter Alexandra Chachkevitch reported from that scene both here and here.

One person was killed and 11 wounded from about 10:40 p.m. Friday until 4:10 a.m. Saturday, 2 killed and 10 wounded from 10:30 a.m. Saturday until 4:45 a.m. Sunday, and 9 people wounded from about 4:11 p.m. Sunday until about 5:15 a.m. Monday.

In addition, there was a police-involved shooting about 1:30 a.m. Saturday in which a man died. Police assigned to the Heart of Chicago neighborhood on the Lower West Side saw someone fire shots from a vehicle at 23rd and Wood Streets, police said, and after a pursuit, the vehicle crashed. Police said the vehicle then reversed in the direction of the police, who fired their weapons.

One of the vehicle's occupants, who suffered a gunshot wound, was dead at the scene. Police could not say if the man's death came as a result of police gunshots or from being involved in the crashes. The cause of death was pending autopsy results.

Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told The Associated Press that the driver of the fleeing vehicle was shot and killed.

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