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31 shot, 5 fatally, so far in Chicago during Memorial Day weekend

CHICAGO - As Memorial Day weekend wore on, by Sunday afternoon Chicago police had responded to the shootings of 31 people, five of whom died from their injuries, officials said.

The grim tallies grew as a shooting Sunday about 6 a.m. in the 1300 block of West Hastings Street left two dead and two injured. The shooting was possibly in retaliation for an earlier one in the same University Village neighborhood, which also left a man dead, investigators said.

Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department, said detectives believe there is a connection between the

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