CHICAGO — Ten people were killed and 38 others are wounded in Memorial Day weekend shootings in Chicago — the deadliest Memorial Day weekend since 2015, when 12 people were killed.
Despite the state’s stay-at-home order, the weekend’s death toll surpassed last year’s holiday weekend, when seven people were killed and 34 were injured during the period from 5 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m. Tuesday.
In 2018, seven people died and 30 others were wounded. In 2017, six people were killed and 44 others were wounded. In 2016, six people were killed and 56 wounded.
At the beginning of Memorial Day weekend — the unofficial start of summer — Chicago Police Supt. David Brown announced opening a Summer Operations Center to centralize police resources in an effort to tamp down on summer gun violence.
The most recent fatal shooting was Monday evening, May 25 in Garfield Park on the West Side.
Two men, 45 and 52, were standing on the sidewalk about 8:30 p.m. in the 2800 block of West Wilcox Street when someone in a white sedan fired shots, Chicago police said.
The 45-year-old, who was shot in the head and torso, was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office hasn’t released details about his death.
The older man was shot in the leg and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition, police said.
On Sunday afternoon, a person was fatally shot in Rosemoor on the South Side. About 3:05 p.m., a male was in a vehicle in an alley in the 400 block of East 103rd Street when someone walked up and fired shots, police said. He was shot in the face and chest and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead.
Earlier Sunday morning, a man was killed in Humboldt Park on the Northwest Side.
About 7:45 a.m., a ShotSpotter notification alerted police of the shooting in the 1000 block of North Drake Avenue, police said. Officers found the man, 21, with a gunshot wound to his head and notified Chicago firefighters. Dariontae Adams was taken to Stroger Hospital and pronounced dead, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
A 45-year-old man was killed several hours before that in Grand Crossing on the South Side.
