38 shot, 4 fatally, in Chicago weekend gun violence

A Chicago Police Detective uses a pen to hold up a shell casing at the scene where multiple people were shot in the 3300 block of West Flournoy Street in the Homan Square neighborhood, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

Thirty-eight people were shot in Chicago over the weekend in a series of attacks concentrated on the West and South sides.

More than a quarter of the victims were wounded in two mass shootings that wounded five people each in Washington Park on the South Side and East Garfield Park on the West Side.