One-a-Day Catchup

HeyJackass.com notes that Chicago finished January with thirty-one homicides - one per day. Second best over the last dozen years or so. 

And then February started off with slightly less than one-a-day....until the west side decided to play catch-up:

• Three gunmen opened fire on a vehicle in a fast food parking lot Tuesday afternoon, killing two men and critically injuring a third in a brazen daylight attack in Tri-Taylor. The shooting occurred around 1:20 p.m. outside a White Castle restaurant at 2356 West Roosevelt Road, according to Chicago police and witnesses. The victims were sitting in a vehicle when three gunmen approached on foot and opened fire, CPD said

• A woman on her way to an appointment at UI Health was fatally shot in a parking garage Tuesday in the 1100 block of South Wood Street in Little Italy in what hospital officials say may have been a domestic-related attack, according to a release from UI Health. Investigators with UIC police believe the shooting, which occurred at 1:35 p.m., “may be related to a domestic dispute,” according to the statement. Chicago police deferred to UIC police, according to a spokesperson.

• A man died after being shot while driving in West Town on Tuesday afternoon, according to Chicago police. The man, 32, was driving in the 700 block of North Wolcott Avenue at 4:42 p.m. when he was shot in the chest, police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he later died.

We're told that in the second shooting, the woman's child was left unharmed in the back seat.

But it was certainly a messy Tuesday.