Oct. 26--Shootings across the South and West sides of the city left 34 people shot, six fatally, between Friday afternoon and early Monday morning, according to authorities.
Aside from the shootings, a woman was found stabbed to death in her burning home early Monday.
So far this year, Chicago has seen at least 2,509 people shot, about 400 more than the same period last year, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis of shootings data collected over the last two years. Through Monday morning, homicides have risen to at least 415, up from 356 a year earlier, according to Chicago Tribune data on city homicides.
Four people were shot in the Little Village neighborhood, including a woman killed and a man critically injured hours apart early Saturday who police believe were not targets and not involved in gangs. The other two wounded in Little Village were shot Sunday night in the 2200 block of South Washtenaw Avenue after some type of crash, according to police.
Two people were shot in two separate incidents in the 200 block of South Kilbourn Avenue over the weekend. In the first, early Saturday, a man walked into Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound but was otherwise uncooperative, police said. In the second, a 26-year-old man was shot to death while he drove by someone who pulled alongside his car and opened fire, police said.
The weekend's first homicide happened in the 5100 block of North Austin Avenue. Police described it as a "domestic" incident that left a 17-year-old boy dead with a gunshot wound to the head.
That homicide was one of three shootings that happened over the weekend north of North Avenue. A man was shot and seriously wounded about 11:40 p.m. Friday at a gas station Touhy Avenue and Sheridan Road in the Rogers Park neighborhood, police said. Another was wounded on Francisco Avenue on the block north of North Avenue, police said.
