Chicago saw one of its most violent Fourth of July weekends in recent years. Published reports say at least 101 people were shot between Friday afternoon and early today. Fifteen of the wounded died. The violence was mostly on the South and West sides.
The youngest person shot over the weekend was a 13-year-old boy seriously wounded in Gage Park on Friday night. The oldest person shot was a 60-year-old man in the Lawndale neighborhood.
Two men died and two others were wounded following a shooting on Chicago's Far South Side. Police say the victims were standing in front of a house last night near 109th and Eberhart when several people in a black SUV fired at them. Two of the men died at the scene while the other two were hospitalized in stable condition.
The weekend had been relatively calm by early Tuesday afternoon when police Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced the arrests of 58 people on drug and gun charges.
