The Memorial Day weekend in Chicago was the deadliest in eight years.
less than two blocks from the first-term mayor’s West Side home in Austin.
Shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday, a man, 33, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the armpit in the 7800 block of South Seeley Avenue in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood.About 2:15 a.m. in Lake View, William Hair, 35, was found on a sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the chest in the 500 block of West Surf Street. He died at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
Later in the day, a man was shot to death in the 1100 block of North Ridgeway Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side. The shooting happened about 11:15 a.m., according to police. A fatal shooting in Woodlawn was reported late Saturday. A 26-year-old man was pronounced dead after being shot in the back, police said.
About an hour later, two people were shot while sitting in a car in West Garfield Park. One of them, a 35-year-old man, was pronounced dead after suffering a gunshot wound to the head. Another three people were wounded in a shooting early Monday in Calumet Heights. A 77-year-old man was shot in the back and a woman, 57, was struck in the head. Both were taken in critical condition to University of Chicago Medical Center. A 59-year-old man was taken to Trinity Hospital and was later transferred in good condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
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