CHICAGO _ Fifteen people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, less than half of last weekend's toll and the fewest in the city in months.
Still, Chicago is on pace this year for the most homicides since at least 1998, when the police department said there were 704 homicides.
The number of people shot is also the most in decades: At least 4,170 people so far this year. With less than three weeks left in the year, that marks a 40 percent increase over the total number of shootings in 2015, according to Chicago Tribune data.
Three of the shootings over the weekend were fatal.
Early Sunday afternoon, 45-year-old Anthony Barr was shot in the driver's seat of an SUV, police said. Two people walked up, opened fire and hit him at least twice. Barr, who lived in Harvey, was pronounced dead at the scene.
A 34-year-old man was shot late Friday in Chatham by someone he knew, police said. They were involved in an altercation when the other person shot him in the chest. He was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital. A person of interest was in custody, police said early Saturday.
On Friday afternoon, a 19-year-old man was killed in the North Austin neighborhood. He was in West Crystal Street when two people approached and one or both of them opened fire, then fled in an older-model sedan.
