Overview
- Police tallies were updated during and after the Labor Day holiday weekend to show nine people killed and about 30 others shot across multiple scenes in the city.
- A CTA passenger was shoved from a Red Line train and died after landing on the electrified third rail, a death that was added to the weekend’s homicide count.
- Monday night shootings included four separate incidents that left seven people shot and two men killed in an Englewood home where officers took a suspect into custody and recovered two firearms.
- Outside Chicago, Joliet police arrested 35-year-old Antonio Sims after a Sunday apartment shooting; investigators say they found a loaded stolen 9mm handgun and suspected cocaine and prosecutors have charged him with multiple weapons and drug offenses.
- The weekend’s outbreaks come after an unusually low summer for homicides in the city, and authorities say investigations and charging decisions are ongoing as police work multiple scenes and collect evidence.