Crime & Safety

At Least 42 Shot, 11 Killed In Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend Violence

The first fatal shooting happened at 12:29 a.m. Friday in the 1500 block of West 79th Street in Auburn Gresham.

CHICAGO (CBS) — At least 42 people were shot this Thanksgiving holiday weekend, and 11 of them had been killed.

The first fatal shooting happened at 12:29 a.m. Friday in the 1500 block of West 79th Street in Auburn Gresham. Police said a 30-year-old man was standing in an alley when shots were fired, and he was pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the head. He was identified as Deshawn Lemont Jones.

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