The extended holiday weekend saw at least eight people killed and 30 shot, according to reports, with three fatal shootings taking place on Christmas Day. All the fatalities in Chicago between Dec. 25-28 were a result of shootings, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, with the most recent fatal attack in the early morning hours of Monday involving a 57-year-old male shot in the back in the 2300 block of South Wood Street. It comes on the heels of a report last week from the Chicago Police Department (pdf), which noted 3,180 shooting incidents so far this year, compared with 2,066 at the same time in 2019, a 54 percent increase. The report also noted that homicides in Chicago were up by 56 percent, with 748 so far in 2020, compared with 481 by the same period last year. Aggravated battery complaints are up 6 percent in the same time frame. …