At least 21 people were shot, five of them fatally, Friday into Sunday morning in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 reported that the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred Friday “in the Fernwood neighborhood’s 10600-block of South State Street just after 10:30 p.m.” A 35-year-old man was sitting in a vehicle when another male approached and opened fire, shooting him in the head.
CBS News noted that the 35-year-old had a female in the car, but her age was not reported.
The weekend’s second fatal shooting was discovered just after 3:30 a.m. Saturday, when police found a man dead inside an apartment with gunshot wounds to his body. Police have no motives or suspects in the incident.
The third fatal shooting of the weekend took place “around 3:40 a.m. on Hubbard near State Street.” A man was fighting a man who pulled out a gun and shot him, killing him.
The weekend’s fourth fatal shooting occurred at 4:15 a.m. Saturday in the “5600-block of West Addison Street.”
The most recent fatal shooting occurred just before 11 p.m. Saturday, “in the 7900-block of Ashland.” A 26-year-old man was in an empty lot when someone began firing and he was hit by multiple bullets. He was transported to the hospital where he died.
The Chicago Sun-Times indicated that 436 people have been killed in Chicago this year.
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