47 PEOPLE SHOT, FIVE FATALLY, IN CHICAGO OVER THE WEEKEND

Chicago Tribune
July 25, 2016

Forty-seven people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, five of them fatally, as the pace of gun violence in the city has pushed the number of victims to nearly 2,300 this year, according to data kept by the Tribune.

So far this year, the number of people shot in Chicago is at least 740 higher than last year at this time, the data show. The city has had at least 268 homicides so far this year, which is about 105 more homicides than this time last year.

--At least 19 people were shot, two fatally, during a 14-hour period between 4:30 p.m. Friday and 6:45 a.m. Saturday, police said.

--Two more people were killed and eight others were hurt in shootings from Saturday evening to early Sunday.

--Another fatal shooting happened Sunday afternoon, and 16 others were wounded between Sunday afternoon and early Monday.

In the last shooting of the weekend, an off-duty civilian employee with the Chicago Police Department shot and wounded a person who tried to rob him in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, police said.

A robber approached the employee, a 57-year-old detention aide, in the 1300 block of South Sawyer Avenue shortly before 6 a.m. and the employee shot him, according to a police statement.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The reason that only five were killed out of 47 people shot is because the shooters are such piss poor shooters.