According to Chicago Police Department data, 75 people were shot in 51 separate incidents between 6 p.m. Friday and 11:59 p.m. Monday, which marks one of the most violent weekends of the year to date. That included three mass separate shootings.
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A man was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon while driving in Gresham, the fourth person to be shot in the South Side neighborhood over 10 hours.
A gunman in another car, possibly a silver SUV, opened fire around 12:20 p.m. in the 7900 block of South Ashland Avenue, Chicago police said.
The man, 31, was shot in the chest and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said. His name hasn’t been released.
No arrest was made, police said.
Earlier Wednesday, police opened fire on a man who shot two people in a garage in the 8300 block of South Kerfoot Avenue. The man barricaded himself in a home but was gone when police entered it hours later.