5 dead, 55 shot in Memorial Day weekend shootings in Chicago, sources say. Still some time left before it officially ends

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The police superintendent has spent the weekend - not at police headquarters - but out on the streets.

A source tells ABC7 unofficial, internal police department data has this year's shootings surpassing the number during last year's Memorial Day weekend.

Superintendent Eddie Johnson says the violence has to do with "too many guns and too many people willing to use them."


That may be the reason for an unofficial tally that includes five people killed and 55 others hurt in shootings from 12:01 a.m. Friday until around 6:30 a.m. Monday.

Those numbers do not include three highway shootings under Illinois State Police jurisdiction.

To break those numbers down: Last year over the Memorial Day weekend there were 48 shootings and 14 homicides were recorded.

The year before there were 26 shootings and seven murders.