3 dead, 16 wounded in a Chiraq weekend

Three people were killed and 16 others wounded by gun violence throughout Chicago this weekend.

The most recent fatal shooting happened Sunday evening in Galewood on the Northwest Side.

A man and woman were in a vehicle about 7:45 p.m. in the 6200 block of West

Wabansia Avenue, police said. Someone inside another vehicle fired shots, striking both of them multiple times. The man, 25, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office hasn’t released details about the fatality.

The woman, 21, was taken to the same hospital in serious condition, police said.

A man was killed early Saturday in Washington Park on the South Side.

Officers responding to a ShotSpotter alert for gunfire at 4:08 a.m. in the 300 block of East 61st Street found the man in the middle of the street with a gunshot wound to the head, according to police. He was pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Less than 10 hours earlier, the weekend’s earliest shooting left another man dead in the same neighborhood.

Julius D. Gray, 29, was on the sidewalk about 6:20 p.m. Friday in the 200 block of East Garfield Boulevard when he was hit, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

The most recent nonfatal attack wounded a man Sunday night in Humboldt Park on the West Side.

About 10:39 p.m., he was in the 4100 block of West Hirsch Street when he head gunshots and felt pain, police said. He didn’t see who shot him. The man was struck in the ankle and drove himself to Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center in good condition.