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Only 57 shot, 2 stabbed (with pitchforks) 3 fatally in Chicago this weekend

The numbers are the lowest the city has seen in over a month, when 33 people were shot and two killed between June 12 and June 15.

By Sun-Times Wire Updated Jul 27, 2020, 5:00am CDT





Three people have been killed and 54 more have been wounded this weekend in shootings across Chicago

The numbers are the lowest the city has seen in over a month, when 33 people were shot and two killed between 5 p.m. June 12 and 5 a.m. June 15. Last weekend, citywide gun violence killed 10 people and wounded 60 more.

The weekend’s latest fatal shooting left a person dead in Chatham on the South Side.

The male, whose age isn’t known, was driving about 1:28 a.m. in the 8600 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue when someone in a black sedan fired shots, Chicago police said. He was struck in the head, abdomen and leg.

His car struck a building about a block away, and he was pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office hasn’t released details about his death.

Sunday, a 37-year-old man was shot dead in West Garfield Park.

He was riding a bicycle about 1:30 p.m. in the 4000 block of West Carroll Avenue when he heard gunshots and felt a pain, police said. He was struck in the chest and neck, and rushed to Mt. Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The medical examiner’s office has not released the man’s name.

On Saturday morning, a 19-year-old woman was killed in South Shore.

She and a 39-year-old woman were in the rear parking area of an apartment in the 3000 block of East 78th Street, police said. The younger woman was fatally struck in the head, and the 39-year-old was hit in the shoulder.