Drop in weekend violence in Chicago: 1 dead, 8 wounded


Chicago Tribune staff Contact Reporter

A man was killed and at least eight people were wounded in weekend shootings in Chicago, a significant drop from the violence of the two holiday weekends.

So far this year, at least 72 people have been shot in the city compared with 97 during the same period last year, according to data kept by the Tribune. There have been 10 homicides, down from 16 this time last year.

The sole fatal shooting over the weekend was Saturday morning. Officers found a man slumped over in a running car in the 1300 block of West Hastings Street in Near West Side's University Village neighborhood, police said. He had been shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two men were left in critical condition in other shootings over the weekend.
One man got to Mercy Hospital and Medical Center on Friday after being shot several times. Police believe he may have been the person who robbed someone earlier in the 4800 block of South Wolcott Avenue, according to a law enforcement source. The man was transferred to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.
Early Sunday, police found a 21-year-old man in an alley in the 5600 block of North Western Avenue with a gunshot wound to the head. The man was taken in critical condition to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston. The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately known.
The most recent shooting was in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, where a 21-year-old man was shot in the back of the head Sunday night. He was in a car in the 5400 block of South Laflin Street when someone shot him in the back of the head. He went to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
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Over the Christmas weekend, 61 people were shot, 11 of them fatally, according to Tribune data. Over the New Year's weekend, 55 people were shot, five of them fatally.

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