Chicago shootings: 38 shot, 5 fatally, in weekend violence, CPD says

ABC News Local ^ | January 18, 2022 | By Sun-Times Media Wire

[Oldeconomybuyer]

CHICAGO -- Five people were killed, and 33 others wounded, in shootings in Chicago over the weekend through Tuesday morning.

The period was significantly more deadly than last weekend, when nine people were wounded and no one was killed. It was the first weekend in months in Chicago without a homicide.

Most of the violence this weekend was concentrated on the West and South sides. Almost half the shooting victims were wounded in just four police districts, which reported three shooting victims each: The 7th District in Englewood, the 9th (Deering) in Fuller Park and Gage Park, the 10th in Lawndale, and the 11th in Humboldt Park.

Saturday evening, a man was killed and another wounded in Brainerd on the South Side. They were sitting in a vehicle in the 9200-block of South Normal Avenue when four people approached and fired shots around 7:45 p.m., Chicago police said. One man, 30, was shot in the head and killed. The other man, 38, was seriously wounded.

Saturday afternoon, a 24-year-old man was fatally shot on the sidewalk in Austin on the West Side. He was shot in the chest and legs at 12:15 p.m. Saturday in the 1600-block of North Mayfield Avenue and taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he was pronounced dead.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Funny how you don’t hear of mass shootings in ND but then again, it was -50 where my nephew is (he’s working on a pipeline.)

[GaryCrow]

Their kill percentage is worse than the NYPD. These guys need to spend some serious time at the range.

[skinndogNN]

It shocks me when I see these stats. The shocking part is how many of these people survive gunshot wounds. I’ve seen what bullets can do, so expect a higher kill rate.

[Fellow Traveler]

Those numbers would go up if they wouldn’t hold their weapons sideways.

Those numbers would go up if the weather was better.