Chicago: 29 shot, 5 killed in Memorial Day weekend violence across city

Over Memorial Day weekend, gun violence in Chicago resulted in at least 29 people being shot, five of whom were fatally injured, according to police.

Among the victims was 5-year-old Danae W. Razor, who was shot and killed while sitting in a parked vehicle on the city’s West Side early Sunday morning.

Another shooting occurred minutes earlier in the same area, where a 28-year-old man was fatally shot, and two women were injured but expected to recover.

On Sunday night, three people were critically injured in a shooting on the South Side’s Roseland neighborhood.

Additionally, two men were shot dead late Friday night on the Northwest Side in Albany Park, with no arrests made, ABC 7 Chicago news reported.

Around the same time, three men were injured in a shooting on the South Side in Englewood, all of whom survived.

Police are investigating all incidents, and no arrests have been made. The previous weekend saw 45 people shot, with one fatality. Last year’s Memorial Day weekend in Chicago recorded 53 shootings and 11 deaths.

Written by B.C. Begley