Nice Weekend Conehead

Is crime still down?

• Four people were shot, three fatally, Friday afternoon on the city's West Side, Chicago police said.

  Four people were near the sidewalk in the 4000-block of West Maypole Avenue in West Garfield Park just before 4:45 p.m., when an unknown vehicle approached them, CPD said.

  At least two suspects got out with guns and fired shots at the victims, police said.

Usually on a summer Friday, we'd toss up a "prediction post" speculating on potential weekend shooting/homicide totals. An April post would be a bit earlier than expected PLUS this shooting happened outside of the hours we'd usually set for counting - 1700 hours on Friday until 0001 hours Monday. This triple occurred at 1645 hours and then the weekend temps are scheduled to dip back down into the 50s.

April is shaping up to spike Conehead's stress levels.