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Summer Weekend Shootings Escalate in Chicago and New York

Police are appealing for tips after weekend shootings hit highways, streets, residential blocks.

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Crime scene tape pictured on June 16, 2018. (Rose Abuin/New York Daily News)
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Overview

  • A 24-year-old woman was shot in the abdomen during an attempted armed robbery early Sunday in Lakeview; police have no suspects in custody.
  • Before dawn Sunday, a 41-year-old man was killed at Chicago Avenue and Cambridge on the Near North Side, marking a second slaying at that spot in eight days after Obbie Sanders was charged in the prior killing.
  • Chicago police and Illinois State Police are probing a Friday night scooter-based ambush in Old Town that left a man seriously injured and a Saturday morning shooting on the Kennedy Expressway.
  • A 35-year-old man shot during an argument on Wells Street in the Loop remains in serious condition as detectives search for the shooter.
  • In Queens and Brooklyn, investigators are examining a South Jamaica residential block homicide, a daylight drive-by shooting in Jamaica and the fatal gunning of a 27-year-old near Lafayette Gardens in Clinton Hill.