The city has seen more than 400 murders this year and its murder rate is currently more than four times New York’s. Homicides in Chicago, through last month, are up 24 percent over the previous year.
Members of the West Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago march in response to a recent shooting in and around their neighborhood September 5, 2012 in Chicago. Chicago fifteen-year-old Telessia Shields was shot in the abdomen while walking home from school.
At least 29 people were shot over another violent weekend in Chicago, including five men who were killed by gun violence.
The fatal shooting victims identified as of Monday morning range in age from 21 and 30.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Denzell Williams, 21, was walking in the 100 block of North Central Avenue around 3 a.m. Sunday when a man approached and shot him multiple times in the chest.
Later Sunday, a 30-year-old man was fatally shot and a woman was wounded in an incident that led to a shootout with police around 12:45 p.m. in the 9800 block of South Merrill Avenue. Michael White later died at Advocate Trinity Hospital, the Chicago Tribune reports. Police shot the suspected gunman and took him into custody.
At 6:09 p.m., Darrius Boyd, 25, was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center after being struck in the head less than an hour before in the 8600 block of South Kingston Avenue in the city’s South Chicago neighborhood, according to the Tribune. Around the same time, two other men — aged 28 and 30 — were killed and a 23-year-old pregnant woman was wounded in a separate shooting in the 9400 block of South Rhodes Avenue.
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