Four people were murdered in Chicago over the just-ended weekend, and 21 others survived gunshot wounds, according to preliminary information from Chicago police. The rain-dampened total of 25 victims ties 2017 as the city’s lowest number for the same weekend since at least 2015, according to HeyJackass, a website that tracks Chicago violence using official and open-source data. The totals may shift slightly if additional victims are located or if any of the wounded succumb to their injuries.
Once again this weekend, the city recorded no mass shootings, defined as incidents in which four or more people are shot during a single event.
Among the shootings documented by CWBChicago:
- A 14-year-old boy was shot in the leg outside a fast-food restaurant in the Loop Friday afternoon after a group fight involving students broke out near the 100 block of South Wells Street. Police said someone fired in the boy’s direction around 4:05 p.m., striking him once before fleeing. The boy was taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital for treatment.
- A 53-year-old man was shot and killed during a domestic dispute inside a North Side apartment late Friday night, according to Chicago police. Officers responding to reports of gunfire around 10:37 p.m. in the 2800 block of North Leavitt Street found the man with multiple gunshot wounds. CPD said the shooting followed a heated altercation, and a 911 caller reported that their brother had shot the man. Officers detained the suspect at the scene. Two guns were recovered, and charges were pending.
- A man and woman were found dead from gunshot wounds inside an SUV that idled unnoticed for nearly 20 minutes in a Bridgeport intersection Friday evening. Officers discovered the Ford Explorer stopped at 31st Street and Princeton Avenue around 7 p.m. with a 41-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman fatally shot inside. A gun was found on the man’s lap, and the medical examiner later ruled his death a suicide and hers a homicide. No 911 calls about gunfire were made before police made the discovery.
- CPD is investigating whether a man shot in an Ashburn apartment Saturday afternoon was wounded after trying to sexually assault a woman whose husband intervened. Officers responded to the 3200 block of West 84th Street around 1:45 p.m. and found a man with a gunshot wound to his arm. According to a preliminary report, the husband’s firearm discharged as he struggled with the assailant to control the weapon. The injured man fled before being located more than an hour later in the 6500 block of South Bell Avenue. Police found his abandoned car near the original shooting scene. He was taken to a hospital under police guard.
Here are the preliminary details CPD released about this weekend’s shootings:…