This past weekend ended with 38 people shot in Chicago, four of them fatally — a toll pushed higher by a mass shooting that wounded six people during a large street gathering on the West Side. It was the third-lowest total for the same weekend since 2015, according to HeyJackass, a site that independently tracks city crime data using open-source and official databases. The victims ranged in age from 14 to 67.
HeyJackass statistics show that Sunday, August 10, was the second-most violent day of the year, with 23 people shot, just one fewer than the 24 shooting victims recorded on July 2, 2025.
Sunday’s total includes the six victims shot in the 100 block of North Lacrosse around 2:48 a.m. The shooting occurred during a huge street gathering promoted online as Club JRoy. As the promoter tried to wash his hands of any responsibility, he also blamed South Siders for the violence…