Six people were killed and 15 others were wounded in shootings over the Mother’s Day weekend in Chicago, a dramatic drop in gun violence from the same weekend last year, according to data kept by the Tribune.
Last year, one of the bloodiest weekends of the year occurred over Mother’s Day, with more than 50 people shot, eight of them fatally, according to Tribune data.–
Fifteen of those victims were shot over a 3 1/2-hour period on Mother’s Day. The lower toll this past weekend continues a downward trend in gun violence in Chicago.
The city has logged at least 214 homicides this year compared to 227 this time last year, according to Tribune data. The number of people shot is down by about 9 percent: …