Chicago Christmas weekend shootings
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Two men were killed and at least 17 other people have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday. This year too, the Christmas holiday weekend in Chicago started with violence. The most recent shooting hit Chicago on Saturday. A 21-year-old man who was sitting in his vehicle on the Northwest Side saw someone walking up to him and fired shots at him before running away, local news reported.
The man was shot in his left thigh and taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where his condition is stabilized, Chicago Sun-Times was quoted Chicago Police as saying.
In 2016, as well, 59 people were shot in Chicago over the holiday weekend, leaving 11 dead.
While the Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said a motive for the shooting was not immediately known, and investigators were trying to decide whether the shooting was a case of mistaken identity in ongoing conflicts among some gangs in the area. Further investigations are on to find whether the shooting could have been an attempted carjacking.
At least four people were wounded in the Friday shootings, while last weekend, five men were killed and at least 14 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago between Friday evening and Monday morning.
