Five Killed and At Least 32 Shot Over Bloody Weekend in Chicago
At least 32 people were reported injured in shootings and five people died in violent attacks across a deadly weekend in Chicago.
Five people were killed over the weekend, police confirmed to NBC Chicago (which also has the most detailed accounting of every person shot this past weekend):
- Eighteen-year-0ld Jeffery Kemp was killed in a shootout with police around 10 p.m. local time Friday; less than an hour later, a 35-year-old man was shot and killed sitting in a car near Humboldt Park.
- A few hours later, at around 1 a.m. Saturday, a man, 50, died from the resulting stab wound to his the chest from a knife fight in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
- A 43-year-old man was found dead by police around 5:20 a.m. Sunday in Little Village; around the same time, police say, a woman, 34, was shot in the head and killed near Belmont Cragin.
Fourteen people were shot on Sunday afternoon alone, the Chicago Tribune reports: Three people were shot in the West Humboldt Park around 1:50 p.m. local time Sunday; about five minutes later, the Chicago Sun-Times reports, two 16-year-old boys about a mile away were shot while sitting in a parked car.
Hours earlier, around 12:30 a.m., cops were called to a shooting near the University of Chicago campus, where three people—two men and one woman—were also shot while sitting in a car.
