CHICAGO'S UNENDING BLACK VIOLENCE: AT LEAST 6 KILLED / MURDERED, 23 SHOT & WOUNDED in last weekend in violent month in Chicago

BLOOD BATH CITY OF CHICAGO - Six people were killed and at least 23 others were wounded in shootings over the weekend as Chicago closed out its most violent January in at least 16 years.

From Friday evening to Saturday morning, three people were killed and seven were wounded. From Saturday to Sunday, two were killed and 10 wounded, and from Sunday afternoon through early Monday morning, one person was killed and six were wounded.

At least 292 people were shot in January, police said. That's nearly double from the same period last year.

In all, 50 people were killed in January, including beating and stabbing deaths. That’s the greatest number of January homicides since at least 2000. Statistics from before that year have not been made public.

The statistics do not include officer-involved shootings, including one early Sunday that killed a man in Derrick Rose's childhood home in West Englewood.

— February’s first homicide occurred at 12:30 a.m. Monday when a 42-year-old man was shot in the chest in the 500 block of South Cicero Avenue. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead.

— A 30-year-old man was killed at 5:15 a.m. Sunday in the 400 block of East 62nd Street, police said. He had broken into an apartment and began struggling with a woman who pulled out a gun and shot him. The woman has a valid FOID card, and she and the man knew each other.

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