Eighteen people were shot, three of them fatally, Friday into Sunday morning in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reports the first fatal shooting occurred around 8 p.m. during a fight Friday night. The deadly exchange was “in the 1500 block of East 61st Street” and a 29-year-old man was shot in the head and killed.
The weekend’s second fatal shooting was occurred around 2:20 a.m. Saturday “in the driveway of a home in the 9500 block of South Sangamon Street.” A 17-year-old was standing in the driveway and was shot in the chest. He was transported to a hospital where he died.
A 40-year-old man was shot and killed during a drive-by shooting Sunday morning “in the 300 block of South Kilbourn Avenue.” The shooting occurred just before 3:30 p.m.
Nineteen people were shot last weekend in Chicago and one of those shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.
The Sun-Times reports 143 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2022, through April 10, 2022.
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