A pair of 17-year-old twin brothers were among 17 people killed in a spate of shootings across Chicago over the weekend that also left 41 wounded, CBS News reports.
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Edwin and Edward Bryant, juniors at a Chicago high school, were killed in a drive-by shooting in the North Side of Chicago at around 3:15 am Sunday. Both were shot multiple times and pronounced dead at hospital.
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The assailants are still at large, with a police investigation underway.
The first homicide of the weekend happened at around 9 p.m. Friday night, when a 38-year-old man was shot in the back and thighs by two gunmen, according to CBS News.
On Saturday night, 19-year-old Luis Corona was shot in the chest by a pair of robbers, before crashing his car into two parked vehicles while trying to escape. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
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The weekend’s final homicide happened early Monday morning in the South Side of Chicago, when a 28-year-old man was found with gunshot wounds on the kitchen floor of a second-floor apartment.
41 people were also wounded in shootings across the city between Friday afternoon and Sunday night.
The weekend shootings bring Chicago’s death toll from gun violence in 2016 to 630 as of Monday Oct. 31, according to the Chicago Tribune, with 3,663 shooting victims in all.
There were 492 gun-related murders in the city in 2015.
— With files from the Associated Press
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