At least 14 people were shot, three of them fatally, Friday into Saturday night across Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported that a 29-year-old man was found by police with multiple gunshot wounds “in the 1100 block of South Mozart Street” at 3:25 a.m. Saturday. He was transported to a hospital, where he died.
At 12:25 p.m. Saturday a 42-yaer-old man was shot numerous times in the chest “in the 7300 block of S. Dorchester Avenue.” He died at the scene.
Just over two hours later, at 2:35 p.m., a 43-year-old was shot numerous times in a parking lot “in the 3900 block of West Odgen Avenue.”
The 43-year-old was taken to a hospital, where he died.
The Sun-Times maintains a database on Chicago homicides which shows that 473 people were killed in the Windy City January 1, 2023, through October 21, 2023.
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