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Weekend Gunfire Engulfs Chicago and New York, Leaving Multiple Dead and Wounded

Investigators are poring over video footage, forensic findings, tip line leads, witness accounts following the holiday weekend shootings.

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

  • Chicago saw at least six people shot over the July 12–13 weekend, including fatal incidents on the Far South Side and Near North Side
  • A scooter-riding assailant opened fire on a parked vehicle in Old Town, seriously wounding a 40-year-old man who was later found with a firearm
  • In Lakeview, three men in a silver SUV attempted an armed robbery that left a 24-year-old woman shot in the abdomen before the suspects fled
  • NYPD detectives are probing deadly shootings in South Jamaica and Clinton Hill, including a drive-by attack in Jamaica that killed a 41-year-old man
  • Only Obbie Sanders has been charged in an earlier Near North Side murder; all other weekend cases remain under active investigation as police seek public tips