4 dead, 22 hurt in weekend violence, city passes 500th fatal shooting
A man shot dead Friday evening was the 500th person to be killed in city gun violence since the start of the year during a weekend in which four people have been killed and at least 22 others wounded in Chicago shootings.
The city reached 500 shooting homicides about a week later than it did last year, on Sept. 29, 2016, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times. At this point last year, there had been 511 people shot to death.
In all, 537 deaths have been ruled homicides in the city since the start of this year, according to Sun-Times data.
The 18-year-old became the 500th person shot to death when he was found unresponsive by officers about 4:45 p.m. Friday in the 800 block of East 83rd Street in the East Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, according to Chicago Police. He suffered a gunshot wound to his chest and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died. The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not released his identity, pending notification of his family.
A 30-year-old man was killed in the most recent fatal shooting, which happened at 7:26 p.m. Sunday in the West Side Austin neighborhood, police said. He was standing outside of a vehicle in the 1300 block of North Mason when another vehicle pulled up and someone inside shot him multiple times in the chest. The vehicle then drove off. The man was taken to Loyola University Medical Center, where he died. The Cook County medical examiner’s office did not immediately release information on the fatality.
Two other men were shot to death about 10:50 a.m. Saturday in the Pilsen neighborhood on the South Side. Alexis Salgado, 20, and a still-unidentified 18-year-old man were driving in the 1800 block of South Throop when they flashed a gun at someone standing on the street, authorities said. The person on the street pulled out their own gun and fired shots at the vehicle, striking both men. Salgado suffered a gunshot wound to his body and tried to get out of the vehicle, but collapsed; the younger man was shot in the neck, and both were pronounced dead at the scene.
The weekend’s latest nonfatal shooting happened about 8 p.m. Sunday in the West Side Austin neighborhood. The 24-year-old man was in the 1400 block of North Latrobe when he heard shots and felt pain, police said. He had been shot in the head. The man was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was in critical condition.
At least 21 other people have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since 4:30 p.m. Friday, police said. Follow city violence with the Chicago Sun-Times weekend shootings tracker.
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