Overview
- Late Saturday night into early Sunday, gunfire erupted at a large gathering in Washington Park on Chicago’s South Side and at a Trenton block party, leaving at least three people dead and roughly 18 to 19 people wounded across the two scenes.
- In Chicago, officers who were trying to disperse a reunion-style gathering reported shots at about 11:37 p.m., with police later naming the fatality as 35-year-old Rontonio M. Guterz and saying as many as 14 to 15 people were shot.
- Trenton investigators said multiple suspects approached a block party on the 100 block of Locust Street around 12:25–12:30 a.m., recovered about 40–50 shell casings, and identified two people killed with several others hospitalized, some in critical condition.
- As of Monday morning no arrests have been announced in either case, and authorities in Chicago and Trenton are reviewing surveillance and dispatch audio, seeking witnesses, and offering rewards including up to $10,000 from Cook County Crime Stoppers.
- The shootings follow a pattern of concentrated weekend gun violence in several U.S. cities this month, prompting local officials and nonprofits to mobilize crisis aid for victims and to call for steps to curb illegal guns and improve public safety.