Thanks to uncontrollable and unending black violence - Fatal shooting of colored boy, 15, closes deadliest May 2016 in Chicago in 21 years - Keep up the good work.....

The gray sedan was parked in the ambulance bay of the hospital, its doors open and bullet holes just above and below the driver's side window.

Minutes earlier, 15-year-old Fabien Lavinder was in the car on 89th Street when someone stepped from an alley near Commercial Avenue and shot him in the chest, Chicago police said. He died shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday at Advocate Trinity Hospital.

Fabien was the 66th and final homicide victim last month, the deadliest May in Chicago since 1995 when 75 were slain, according to official Police Department records.

For the first five months of this year, 243 people have been killed, the most fatalities since 248 perished in 1999, a Tribune analysis of department statistics found. By the end of 1999, homicides totaled 643 that year.

Shootings have increased as well for the third consecutive year. The department tracks shooting incidents and has reported an increase of more than 50 percent so far this year. Nearly 400 people were shot in May, bringing the total for the first five months to more than 1,500, according to a Tribune analysis.

The May homicide numbers — the worst of any month yet this year — appear to belie police Superintendent Eddie Johnson's optimism at a slowing in the violence since a disastrous start to the year. After just a 2.9 percent gain in homicides in April over the year-earlier period, killings jumped 40 percent in May, department data show.

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