With more than 4 months left, 2016 in Chicago nears last year's gun violence level

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Chicago Tribune:

Another violent weekend in Chicago killed seven people dead and wounded at least 49 others, including a young girl shot in the wrist while attending a vigil for a 14-year-old boy killed early Sunday in Austin.

 

So far this year, more than 2,700 people have been shot in Chicago, according to data kept by the Tribune. All of last year there were 2,988 shooting victims. The number of homicides through this year's first eight months is around 460, nearly 30 killings shy of the total for all of 2015.

 

The most violent stretch of this past weekend was from Saturday afternoon through early Sunday, when at least 26 people were shot, four of them fatally.

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5 dead, at least 16 others wounded during city shootings

 

woman and four men were killed and at least 15 other people have been wounded since Tuesday morning in separate shootings, Chicago police said.

 

In the most recent fatal shooting about 4:10 a.m. Wednesday, a 24-year-old man was found shot to death in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, police said.

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-shooting-violence-20160823-story.html