CHICAGO _ At least 44 people were shot over the weekend in Chicago, nearly doubling the toll of last weekend, when 28 people were shot across the city.
From Friday afternoon to Monday morning, six people were killed and 38 were injured.
More than 1,500 people have been shot this year in Chicago, fewer than in the last two years at this time when violence hit record levels in the city but well above other recent years. There had been at least 276 homicides as of Friday night, according to Chicago Tribune data.
The violence reached its height Saturday night when seven people were shot in a single attack in the West Side's East Garfield Park neighborhood.
Tavish Harris, 30, of Berwyn, died at Stroger Hospital of a gunshot wound to the head. Six other men were wounded, four of them seriously.
Two men were also killed in a triple attack on the South Side early Sunday morning.
Parish McKenzie, 21, and Tremel L. Thomas, 22, were pronounced dead at University of Chicago Medical Center, and a 28-year-old man was in critical condition at Stroger Hospital after the shooting.
