Twenty-three people were shot across Chicago this weekend, four of them fatally, according to preliminary information released by the Chicago Police Department. The weekend total marked an increase from the same weekend last year, when 20 people were shot.
Saturday was particularly violent, with 16 people shot, making it the city’s highest single-day total of shooting victims so far this year, according to HeyJackass.com, which independently compiles and analyzes Chicago crime data. Sunday was much calmer, though, with only one shooting reported.
No incident met the threshold for a mass shooting, which is defined as four or more people shot in a single event, but one came close in Chatham on Saturday night. Police said three people were shot in the 7900 block of South Drexel Avenue when someone started shooting during an argument…