CHICAGO _ A man was killed and at least eight people were wounded in weekend shootings in Chicago, a significant drop from the violence of the two holiday weekends.
So far this year, at least 72 people have been shot in the city, compared with 97 during the same period last year, according to data kept by the Chicago Tribune. There have been 10 homicides, down from 16 this time last year.
The sole fatal shooting over the weekend was Saturday morning. Officers found a man slumped over in a running car in Near West Side's University Village neighborhood, police said. He had been shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene.
One man got to Mercy Hospital and Medical Center on Friday after being shot several times. Police believe he may have been the person who robbed someone earlier, according to a law enforcement source. The man was transferred to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.
Early Sunday, police found a 21-year-old man in an alley with a gunshot wound to the head. The man was taken in critical condition to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston. The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately known.
The most recent shooting was in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, where a 21-year-old man was shot in the back of the head Sunday night. He was in a car when someone shot him in the back of the head. He went to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
