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Three people were killed and 14 others were wounded by gun violence in Chicago over five hours Thursday night into Friday morning, with shootings now up 36% over last year.
The violent night comes as the Chicago Police Department prepares for the traditional summer surge in violence. Last weekend had the most shooting victims so far this year.
While shootings are up 36% from the same period last year, homicides are up 19%, according to data kept by the Chicago Sun-Times. At least 1,244 people have been shot this year and there have been at least 244 homicides.
Overnight, a 56-year-old man was killed in a double shooting in Grand Crossing on the South Side. He and another man, 54, were shot as they stood outside in the 7300 block of South Blackstone about 3:20 a.m. The 56-year-old died at a hospital, while the other man was in fair condition.
17 shot, 3 fatally, in span of 5 hours across Chicago
By Sun-Times Media Wire
CHICAGO - Three people were killed and 14 others were wounded by gun violence in Chicago over five hours Thursday night into Friday morning, with shootings now up 36% over last year.
The violent night comes as the Chicago Police Department prepares for the traditional summer surge in violence. Last weekend had the most shooting victims so far this year.
While shootings are up 36% from the same period last year, homicides are up 19%, according to data kept by the Chicago Sun-Times. At least 1,244 people have been shot this year and there have been at least 244 homicides.
Chicago police Wednesday announced a murder charge filed against a man in connection with a homicide earlier this month, which happened on a dangerous West Side block that has been home to gang-controlled open-air drug markets targeted twice by federal prosecutors and at least six shootings in the past three years.
‘I (expletive) up,’ gunman said after fatally shooting man he did not know after confronting him on notoriously violent Lawndale block, prosecutors say Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, Chicago Tribune
The victim of a fatal shooting fired back at an assailant who shot him on a dangerous West Side block that has been home to gang-controlled open-air drug markets targeted twice by federal prosecutors and at least six shootings in the past three years.
Antwoine Moss, 35, charged with first-degree murder, was ordered held without bail before Judge David Navarro in the shooting death of 24-year-old Devon Jackson on April 17.
Moss “turned himself in” to investigators at the Harrison District police station Monday.
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