Englewood homicide
The last murder on Easter Sunday was a 45-year-old man gunned down in Englewood on the South Side. About 11:25 p.m., the man was found in the 6800 block of South Throop Street with gunshot wounds on the chest, Chicago police said.
He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office hasn’t released his name.
Man dies after being shot 14 times in Roseland
Before dawn Sunday, a man died after being shot more than a dozen times, and another man was critically wounded, in Roseland on the Far South Side. A 31-year-old man was arguing with two people about 1:30 a.m. in the 200 block of West 108th Street when one person fired multiple shots at him, police said.
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Chicago saw an especially bloody Easter with at least seven people shot and killed citywide during the 24-hour period.
The entire weekend’s toll was 34 people shot, eight of them fatally, in gun violence heavily concentrated on the South and West sides.
Easter weekend was more deadly, but saw less shootings, than last weekend when 36 people were shot, four of them fatally, between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday.
Englewood homicide
The last murder on Easter Sunday was a 45-year-old man gunned down in Englewood on the South Side. About 11:25 p.m., the man was found in the 6800 block of South Throop Street with gunshot wounds on the chest, Chicago police said.
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One person has been killed and at least 22 others wounded in shootings across Chicago so far this weekend.
Sunday morning, a man shot dead and another critically wounded in a shooting in Roseland on the South Side.
A 31-year-old man was arguing with two people about 1:30 a.m. in the 200 block of West 108th Street when one person fired multiple shots at him, Chicago police said.
He suffered 14 gunshot wounds to the upper body and was transported to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was pronounced dead, according to police.
A 45-year-old man tried to intervene and was also shot, police said.
Man, 25, critically hurt in Cragin shooting
By Sun-Times Media Wire
Cragin on the Northwest Side.
About 5:15 a.m., the man was in the 5000 block of West Deming Place when someone fired shots, Chicago police said.
He was shot in the abdomen and was taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital in critical condition, police said.