20 shot in violent start to Chicago weekend
CHICAGO — It's been an especially violent start to the weekend in Chicago. Twenty people were shot overnight in the city.
Two of them have died, including an 18-year-old gang member who police said was found dead with a gun in his hand in the West Pullman neighborhood. The other man killed overnight was one of two people shot while sitting in a car. The assailant walked up to the vehicle and started firing at the men in the backseat.
Among those injured was a woman in her late teens who was shot in the head around 5 a.m. Saturday while she was inside a vehicle in McKinley Park. She is in critical condition.
Shootings typically spike on the weekends in Chicago and many of them are gang-related.
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