At least 14 people were shot, four of them fatally, Friday into Saturday night in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred around 10:40 p.m. Friday at an apartment complex “in the 8000 block of South Hermitage Avenue.” A 44-year-old man was shot in the back and found in a hallway. He was transported to a hospital, where he died.
Police responded to calls of shooting Saturday around 3 a.m. and found a man, age unknown, with a gunshot wound to his head lying in an alley “in the 8000 block of South Union Avenue.” The man died at the scene.
Around 8:40 a.m. Saturday a 30-year-old was shot while inside “a home in the 12000 blk. of S. Prairie.” He was in the home with a 31-year-old woman and she was also shot. The man died and the woman is in critical condition.
Just over an hour later, a 25-year-old man was shot in a drive-by shooting “in the 5000 block of West 45th Street.” He was transported to a hospital where he died.
A database maintained by the Sun-Times shows 415 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through August 9, 2023.
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