At least 20 people were shot during the weekend’s violence in Chicago — including one gunned down just blocks from the site of the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
Just after 1 a.m. Sunday, a 21-year-old man was involved in a car wreck with a black truck in the 500 block of Damen Avenue, less than a mile north of the United Center where the DNC will kick off Monday to presumably nominate Kamala Harris for the Democratic presidential ticket .
The driver of the truck is said to have unleashed a weapon on the 21-year-old and hit him in the head, cheek and shoulder before fleeing.
He was left in critical condition, according to ABC 7 Chicagoand no suspects have been identified.
Around the same time, across town on the Lower West Side, a man and a woman were found shot to death in a car.
Officers responding to the sound of gunshots encountered a group of armed suspects near the car and opened fire on them, hitting one who later died at a hospital.
On Saturday, a man and a woman were standing outside just before 5:00 a.m. when shots were heard and they were hit.
The man, 53, was hit in the abdomen and later died, while the woman, 41, was hit in the ankle. A third victim, 33, was hit in the foot.
Another shooting Saturday on the Southwest Side left a 30-year-old man dead after a man approached him, shot him in the neck and back, then fled.
At least four people were killed in the weekend’s violence, but it was a relatively tame weekend for Chicago.
Last weekend 33 people were shot and one killed, while the weekend before 48 were shot and five were killed.
During the Fourth of July weekend, at least 109 people were shot, 19 of them fatally.