The Chicago Police Department hasn’t released its count of Labor Day weekend shootings.
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The latest fatal shooting occurred around 10:45 p.m. Monday on the city’s West Side, when someone in a silver mini-van opened fire on a group of teens and young men, police said.
The 24-year-old man was shot in the head in the 6800 block of South Emerald, according to Chicago Police. The man was pronounced dead at St. Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center. One of the men had been shot in the head and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. He was taken to Stroger Hospital where his condition was stabilized.
Police said the man is a documented gang member. Police said witnesses noticed several people in a white van harassing the victim, who was in his own vehicle, before the shooting.
Additional information was not immediately available.
The man was discovered about 6:20 a.m. lying unresponsive in the 2800 block of East 77th Place, said Officer Nicole Trainor, a Chicago police spokeswoman. He was shot in the face and pronounced dead at the scene.
About 10:30 p.m. Sunday a teenage boy was killed in the South Shore neighborhood. The man was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. The medical examiner’s office has not yet confirmed the fatality.
Just hours later, at around 3:20pm, two people were shot in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, while standing on a sidewalk.
Around 6:48 p.m. Monday, a 33-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting in the city’s Englewood neighborhood on the city’s South Side, one of the neighborhoods most plagued by gun violence. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.
The ages and names of the victims have not been released. The other man, 26, suffered a wound to the upper left shoulder and a graze wound to the head. The other man was taken to the same hospital in serious condition with wounds to the chest, back and wrist, police said. Robert L. Porter Jr. and the younger man were unloading boxes in an alley in the 6700 block of South Green when someone dressed in black walked up and fired shots, authorities said.
The holiday weekend killings, along with dozens of non-fatal shootings, come after police recorded 92 murders in August, the deadliest month for Chicago since June 1993. He lived in the 1100 block of West 67th Street. A male got out of the van, fired shots and got back into the van, which drove away in an unknown direction. The man was listed in critical condition with a gunshot in his back, and the woman was in serious condition after being shot in her stomach.
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Two people were shot and killed Monday night in a park on Chicago’s South Side. The newspaper says eight died of 54 people who were shot during last year’s Labor Day weekend.
