CHICAGO _ Four people were killed and 22 others were injured in shootings in Chicago this weekend, including a man wounded by police and two young sisters struck in the legs while riding in a car, according to police.
The latest gun violence brings the number of people shot in the city this year to at least 348, according to data kept by the Tribune. There have been at least 76 homicides. The numbers continue a trend of fewer shootings and fewer homicides this year than in the last two years, when violence hit record levels in the city. Shootings are still substantially higher than other recent years.
Over the weekend, two girls ages 6 and 13 were shot at North and Cicero avenues about 9 p.m. Sunday when a car pulled up and someone fired as the girls were coming home from the laundromat, police said. They were both in good condition at Stroger Hospital.
About an hour earlier, a man was shot and seriously wounded by police in the 4200 block of South Ashland Avenue. The man had pushed a police officer during a traffic stop and ran off when an officer discharged his weapon, police said.
In the most recent homicide, a 58-year-old man was shot several times Sunday night in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, police said.
Three people were fatally shot between Saturday and Sunday mornings, police said. A 29-year-old man was shot in the South Austin neighborhood on the West about 3:50 a.m. Sunday, police said. Earlier, Jontae Hunt, 17, and Jovan Killingsworth, 26, were killed on the South Side within 20 minutes of each other on Saturday night, police said.
