Unending Chicago Negro Violence - This weekend (08/01/15) 40 people shot - 3 fatally

PHOTO: Chief of the Washington DC Police Cathy Lanier and Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy at the Nation Negro Violence Conference in Washington DC

The weekend shootings, counted from about 3 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Monday, pushed the yearly total for 2015 to at least 1,633, according to an analysis of a Chicago Tribune database on city shootings. That's more than for comparable periods in 2014 (1,469), 2013 (1,208) and 2011 (1,501).

According to a Tribune database on city homicides, 272 people have been killed so far this year, compared with 236 in 2014 and 246 in 2013.

The girl was shot while two other people were fighting at 8:40 p.m. Sunday in the 5600 block of South Bishop Street in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side. One of them pulled out a handgun and fired shots, hitting the girl in the leg, police said. She was taken to Comer Children's Hospital in serious condition.

The boy was shot about 8:45 p.m. in 2500 block of North Parkside Avenue in the Belmont Central neighborhood on the Northwest Side, police said. He was in a vehicle with a 19-year-old man when someone in a gray vehicle fired shots at them, police said. The 19-year-old was grazed on the head and the boy was hit in the shoulder. They went to Community First Medical Center, where the boy's condition was stabilized.

No additional details were available on either of those two shootings.

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