By JEFF MAYES
Chicago Sun-times Wire
After a stretch of more than five days during which there were no homicides reported in the city, a particularly violent weekend ended with two men fatally shot.
From about 6:15 a.m. Sunday until 10:30 p.m. Friday, there were no homicides reported in Chicago, the longest stretch in months. But over the weekend, two men were fatally shot and at least 30 others wounded in gunfire across the city.
Still, the two fatalities marked the lowest homicide total for one week in 2015. The only other time only two people were killed in a week was the first week of the year, when two men were fatally shot during the week ending Jan. 4, marking the final homicide of 2014 and the first of this year.
The latest homicide in the city happened Sunday morning in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.
Police found 26-year-old Andre D. Donner Jr. with a gunshot wound to the head about 10 a.m. in the 7200 block of South May, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died within the hour.
The other fatal shooting, Friday night in the South Side Washington Heights neighborhood, claimed the life of popular Simeon graduate Joseph Graves, who was home on Christmas break from his sophomore year at Southern Illinois University.
About 10:30 p.m., crews found the 19-year-old unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the back of the head in the 700 block of West 92nd Street, authorities said.
Graves, who lived in the 8400 block of South Green, was dead at the scene.