Three other people were also shot and taken to Mount Sinai, police said. The Tribune’s own database, which primarily uses the Cook County medical examiner’s office to determine whether to count a death as a homicide, put the total number of killings at 512 as of early Tuesday. About 4 p.m. in Back of the Yards on the South Side, three people in a white van pulled up to a 44-year-old man driving in the 4500 block of South Hermitage and started harassing him, police said. Even at 488 homicides, the Police Department’s statistics do not include killings on area expressways, police-involved shootings, other justifiable homicides or death investigations that could later be reclassified as homicides. But the violence spiked on the last day, with 31 shot between 6 a.m. Monday and 3 a.m. Tuesday. He died at the scene, according to police, who said the shooter was arrested with charges pending Monday night. Among those shot was a woman who is nine months pregnant and was wounded in the abdomen on the same block where someone had been killed less than 20 hours earlier. The holiday weekend’s first fatal shooting happened early Sunday in the Archer Heights neighborhood on the Southwest Side. A man she was standing near was left in critical condition in the same shooting around 3:30 p.m. in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Family members said the woman was due to deliver her first baby boy at the end of September. The Labor Day weekend was the deadliest of the three holiday weekends this summer.
– After wrapping up its deadliest month in 20 years, Chicago logged its 500th homicide of the year over Labor Day weekend, when 65 people were shot, including 13 fatally. Nine of those deaths and almost half of all shootings resulting in injuries or deaths occurred between 6am Monday and 3am Tuesday, possibly as individuals and gangs sought retaliation for earlier shootings, police tell the Chicago Tribune, which now counts 512 homicides in the city so far this year, compared to 491 in all of 2015. An 80-year-old man and a woman who was nine months pregnant were among the victims, reports CBS Chicago, which has a detailed breakdown of the shootings.