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Chicago on Sunday was reeling from another violent weekend, with nearly 50 shootings – including eight people killed – since Friday, police said.
As of Sunday evening, officials said police have not made any arrests in any of the shootings.
The violence first unfolded around 5:30 p.m. Friday. Three people – a 14-year-old boy, a 21-year-old man, and a 27-year-old woman – were standing on a sidewalk when someone fired shots at them from within a car, WMAQ-TV reported. Doctors were treating all three of them at nearby hospitals; their conditions were unknown.
Later that evening, an armed suspect kicked in the door of a first-floor apartment on the same block of the first crime scene, shooting a 60-year-old man in the neck and 23-year-old in the arm, police said. The 60-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene and the 23-year-old was recovering at University of Chicago Medical Center in fair condition.
Chicago was reeling from another weekend of bloody violence.
Less than an hour later, three people inside a vehicle were shot, investigators said. One of the three, a 20-year-old man, was shot in the chest and died, while the other two, ages 19 and 30, were wounded but survived.
After midnight, a 67-year-old man was killed by gunfire while walking on a sidewalk. Hours later, shots rang out hitting a group of five people, police said. A 25-year-old man was hit in the chest and pronounced dead at Mount Sinai. The remaining four people were injured but listed in good condition.
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Minutes later, investigators said an 18-year-old man drove into a tree after somebody had shot at him. Police found him inside the wrecked vehicle and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Early Saturday morning, a 26-year-old man was found lying on the ground with gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
On Sunday afternoon, a gunman in the city’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood got out of a car and fired shots at two boys – ages 10 and 11 – and a 27-year-old man, Fox 32 reported. All three were hospitalized and in good condition, according to the station.
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At least three more people were killed, and 30 others were injured, in shootings throughout Chicago between Friday and Sunday evening.
