t least seven people were killed and 32 others were wounded by gunfire in Chicago over the sweltering Memorial Day weekend as more than 1,000 extra police officers patrolled the streets, beaches and parks.
Shootings happened in neighborhoods stretching as far south as West Pullman and Brainerd, to West Side communities like Austin and East Garfield Park and to Northwest Side areas that usually don’t see much violence like Portage Park and Albany Park. One strangulation death also was reported.
This year’s Memorial Day weekend was less violent than last year, when 45 people were shot, 7 of them killed, according to data kept by the Tribune. Seventy-one people were shot, six fatally, over the same weekend in 2016 — one of the most violent Memorial Day weekends in years.
Chicago Tribune
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