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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Sophie Sherry

West Side police district sees most shootings, killings for second straight weekend. ‘Challenges just keep coming,’ top cop says

Interim Supt. Fred Waller speaks Tuesday at the Bright Star Trauma Helpline Center at Carter G. Woodson Middle School on the South Side about the efforts of the Chicago Police Department to curb violence this summer. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

The police district that surrounds Garfield Park on the West Side bore the brunt of gun violence over the long holiday weekend, and nowhere was that more evident than on a short stretch of Gladys Avenue.

A 17-year-old girl was killed and two other teens were wounded on a porch. A man was killed while riding in a car a block away. Another man was found shot to death four blocks to the east.

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