Chicago shootings: 6 dead as guns, holiday weekend make deadly mix

6 dead: Chicago shootings leave at least 6 dead and 11 wounded after a weekend of violence in Chicago. The shootings seem to be unrelated acts.

By Associated Press / May 27, 2013

Chicago?authorities say at least six people have been killed in weekend violence and at least another 11 wounded.

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Police are investigating the death of a 42-year-old man who was shot in the head early Sunday. The county medical examiner says Charles Jones was pronounced dead at around 3:30 a.m. The?shooting?stemmed from a crash and a woman was taken to the hospital.

Also killed Sunday was a man in his late 20s who was shot in the armpit and pronounced dead at a suburban hospital.

Two people were killed in?shootings?Saturday, including 18-year-old Fearro Denard and a 29-year-old man who was shot not far from President Barack Obama's South Side home.

On Friday, a 17-year-old and 22-year old were killed in separate?shootings.

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