March 07--A man was killed and 14 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago over the weekend, a substantial drop from the previous weekend though the level of gun violence this year remains more than double last year at this time.
The weekend's only fatal shooting was on Friday night, when a 44-year-old suburban man was killed in a Bronzeville alley. Wavey Brown was arguing with someone in the 5000 block of South Calumet Avenue when shots were fired and he was hit in the back. He died at Stroger Hospital.
People were shot in neighborhoods as far north as East Norwood Park on the Northwest Side and as far south as Roseland, where an 18-year-old man was hit in the leg and walked half a block to Roseland Community Hospital.
The weekend's youngest shooting victim was a 14-year-old boy shot in the arm Friday evening in Little Village. He was taken in good condition at Mount Sinai Hospital.
The weekend toll is a sharp drop from the previous weekend, when two people were killed and 24 were wounded between Friday afternoon and Sunday evening.
Despite the relatively quiet weekend, shootings and homicides are more than double what they were during the same period last year. The start of this year is the deadliest on record in Chicago since the late 1990s.
As of Monday, there have been at least 509 people shot in Chicago since the first of the year compared with 243 during the same period last year. There have been at least 109 homicides compared with 54 last year.
On Friday, one man was killed and five people were wounded; from Saturday night to Sunday morning, six people were wounded; on Sunday night three people were wounded.
