New Year's Weekend Shootings Claim 5, Wound 41

CHICAGO — After rounding out the year by reaching the highest murder toll in more than two decades, Chicago's start to 2017 included shootings that left five dead and at least 41 other wounded.

The most recent homicide occurred shortly before 6 a.m. Sunday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood's 4600 block of West Monroe, but all were during the New Year's holiday weekend, according to a CBS report. The incidents followed news of 2016 being among Chicago's bloodiest years — 762 total homicides; an average of two per day.

"The nation's third largest city also saw 1,100 more shooting incidents than it did in 2015, according to statistics released by the Chicago Police Department that underlined a story of bloodshed that has put Chicago at the center of a national dialogue about gun violence," said a Fox News report.

The weekend's West Garfield Park shooting claimed 39-year-old John Warship, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Maurice Delaney, 38, and another gunman reportedly shot each other dead about two hours earlier in the 4600 block of North Broadway, CBS News said.

Another man, Kenneth Weaver, 22, was killed on Saturday afternoon in the 4800 block of West Chicago Avenue. Police say the shooter was someone with whom Weaver was arguing after a car accident. The weekend's first fatal gunfire was reported around 9:40 p.m. on Friday in the South Side's Gresham neighborhood, where a 15-year-old boy was found shot in the head.

The weekend's 41 nonfatal shootings — one fewer than those recorded over the same holiday weekend last year — occurred between 4:30 p.m. on Friday and 11 p.m. on Sunday.