36 people were shot and seven people were killed in Chicago over the 2019 Labor Day holiday weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On September 1, a 15-year-old boy was shot and killed on the West Side of Chicago. At 2:19 a.m. Dovantae Jackson, 15, was shot in the leg and back. Dovantae was pronounced dead on the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
20 minutes later a man was killed and a woman wounded in a shooting at a party in on the South Side of Chicago.
Several people were gathered inside of a residence when someone at the party opened fire. The 27-year-old male victim suffered numerous gunshot wounds to the body and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the same day, about an hour later, a drive-by shooting killed a man and wounded another on the Southwest Side of Chicago. The two victims were traveling in a vehicle about 3:54 a.m. when someone fired shots from a passing vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the evening of Saturday August 31, two men age 26 and 32 were killed and three more people were wounded after a suspect shot at a group of people on the South Side of Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also on August 31 Angel Perez, 18, was killed and another person wounded in a double shooting on the West Side of Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
42-year-old Willie Coker was killed in a shooting in South Chicago on August 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
23 other people were shot across Chicago since 5 p.m. Friday August 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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