12 hours short of a week.
Chicago went for more than six days without a fatal shooting for the first time since at least January 2013.
Most recently, a person was found shot to death on Saturday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
Officers responded at 12:23 p.m. to a call of a person lying face down in a vacant lot in the 5400 block of West Ohio, according to Chicago Police.
Antoine D. Watkins, 22, was dead at the scene, according police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived about a block away.
It was not immediately clear how Watkins ended up dead in the lot, but an autopsy Sunday found he died of multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office. Police did not know when the shooting occurred.
The last fatal shooting happened six days earlier at 10:48 a.m. Feb. 26 in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.[…]
Only once since January 2013 had the city gone more than four days without a fatal shooting. Between 12:52 a.m. Dec. 18 and 2:11 p.m. Dec. 22, 2016, no one was shot to death in Chicago.