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Mon Aug 9, 2021, 08:23 AM Aug 2021

Chicago violence: 72 shot, 11 fatally, over weekend, CPD says [View all]

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CHICAGO SHOOTING

Chicago violence: 72 shot, 11 fatally, over weekend, CPD says

Sun-Times Media Wire
Monday, August 9, 2021 6:16AM

CHICAGO -- At least 72 people have been shot, 11 fatally, across Chicago over the weekend, police said.
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Around 2:05 a.m., a 24-year old man opened fire after getting into a verbal fight with another man, 37, at a lounge in the 1800-block of West 87th Street in Gresham on the Far South Side, Chicago Police said.

The 37-year-old was shot twice in the neck and three times in the back and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he died to his injuries, police said.

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