CHICAGO — Thirteen people were killed and at least 42 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago between 5 p.m. Friday and early Monday.
Among the victims was 3-year-old Devon Quinn who was sitting in his car seat in the city’s Woodlawn neighborhood.
The boy was shot in the right shoulder just after 6 p.m. near the corner of East 61st Street and South Kimbark Avenue. He and was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in critical condition.
In the Back of the Yards neighborhood, a 17-year-old boy was killed. Friends identify him as Salvador Suarez.
Police say he was walking along the 1700 block of West 46th Street when someone in a Saturn sedan pulled up and fired shots with a semi-automatic weapon.
So far this year, about 1,780 people have been shot across the city, according to records kept by the Chicago Tribune.
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