31 Shot, Six Dead in Chicago Shootings Over the Past Weekend: Police

Chicago Police set up near the corner of 64th St. and Loomis Blvd., an intersection near the location where an officer was shot, in Chicago, on June 1, 2022. Brian Rich/Chicago Sun-Times via AP

At least 31 people were shot, including six fatally, in Chicago over the past weekend, officials said on Monday morning.

In the latest fatal shooting, a woman who was not identified was shot and killed in the West Lawn neighborhood on Sunday night at around 7:35 p.m., officials told ABC and the Chicago Sun-Times. Two females were arguing on the sidewalk of South Kilbourn Avenue when a male suspect approached them and fired several shots, hitting the woman in the head and body. The woman was later pronounced dead at the Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

On Sunday morning at around 4 a.m., a 23-year-old man was shot and killed and a woman was critically injured in Grand Boulevard on the South Side. Officers found the man and the woman on South State Street with a gunshot wound to the chest. The man was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, and the woman, 32, was shot in the lower back. Officials said she is hospitalized at the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition.

At around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, a 34-year-old man was shot dead inside a car in South Commons on the South Side, officials told the two outlets. He was found with wounds to his torso. When he was taken to Stroger Hospital, he was later pronounced dead, authorities said.

Hours before that, a woman was shot and killed while she was inside a car on the West Side near East Garfield Park, officials said. The 37-year-old was struck by gunfire by someone who shot into the car. She was taken to Stroger and was later pronounced dead from her injuries, said police.

In a similar incident on the Lower West Side at around 11 p.m. on Saturday, a 26-year-old male was struck by gunfire as he was a passenger inside a vehicle. Someone pulled up next to the car he was in and opened fire on the man’s car, police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital and was later pronounced dead, police said.

A man—25-year-old Vaugh Sivels—was shot and killed on Friday afternoon in Englewood on the South Side, said police. He was outside on Justine Street on Chicago’s South Side someone shot him in the head and torso, officials said. Sivels was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead sometime later.

In the reports, no suspects were listed in connection to the shootings and homicides.