Six people were killed and 22 wounded in new gun violence that hit Chicago over Memorial Day weekend, UPI reported. On Friday evening, a 17-year-old girl was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, and 18-year-old man was shot in the chest in the same incident. Another man later that evening was shot and killed.
On Saturday, an 18-year-old man was shot in the head in a possible drive-by.
Also on Sunday, police responded to a disturbance call and found Malcolm Dobbey, who was shot to death in a backyard. Detectives were questioning a "person of interest" in the fatal shooting, but charges have been brought as of late Sunday evening.
The manager of a gentleman's club, Charles Jones, who was shot and killed during an incident in which a Buick LaCrosse sideswiped his Maserati. When Jones pulled over to confront the other motorist, the driver and a passenger walked to another vehicle and then came back, and shot him.
A 44-year-old woman was shot in the back, police said. The two were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where Jones was pronounced dead and the woman was in serious condition, officials said.
"When I saw him fall to the ground, I knew (the shooter) was coming for me," the woman said in a phone interview from her hospital bed, as Reuters reported.
"So he ran over -- when I saw that, I ran to the car and, you know, I accelerated so, you know, he wouldn't be able to shoot me. But unfortunately he reached his hand in the car and he shot me in the back," she said.
