Chicago’s Independence Day weekend marred by violence, with at least 104 people shot

At least 104 people were shot in Chicago over the long Independence Day weekend, including two police officers; a 6-year-old girl and her mother; and a group of six people early Monday in the Washington Park neighborhood — where a man was killed hours later in an unrelated shooting.

In all, at least 17 people died from injuries suffered in shootings that started about 5 p.m. Friday and ended a little after 1 a.m. Tuesday, according to police information and Tribune data.

It was the most people shot over a July 4 holiday weekend since at least 2017, when 103 people were shot between 3 p.m. Friday, June 30 and 6 a.m. Wednesday, July 5, 2017, according to Tribune data.

In the most recent fatality, a 26-year-old man was shot to death in the Washington Park neighborhood around 10 p.m. Monday night. He had been standing near a parked car when someone in a passing vehicle shot him in the chest.

A friend began driving the wounded man to a hospital but as they drove they arranged to meet paramedics in the 5700 block of South Calumet Avenue. He was then taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died. Information on his identity had not released by the Cook County medical examiner’s office Tuesday morning.

The earlier Washington Park shooting left two men dead, two women injured and a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy with gunshot wounds. They were in the 6100 block of South Wabash Avenue at 1:05 a.m. Monday when someone drove past, opened fire and fled.

Two men, ages 26 and 21, were pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Information on their identities also had not released by the medical examiner’s office Tuesday. A 12-year-old girl was shot in the buttocks and critically injured; a 13-year-old boy was shot in the hand. Both were taken to Comer Children’s Hospital. In addition, two women were shot and authorities listed them in good condition.

At 1:05 a.m. Tuesday a 32-year-old was sitting in his parked car in Calumet Heights, in the 9200 block of South Harper Avenue, when someone came up to him and opened fire, hitting him in the leg, police said. The man was able to drive himself to Trinity Hospital where he had been listed in fair condition.

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