Chicago Weekend Violence: Stabbings Injure 4, Shootings Kill 3, Wound 14 In Separate Incidents

More Than 20 Wounded Over Violent Weekend
Police tape marks the scene outside Miami-Jacobs Career College where a stabbing occurred Wednesday, March 14, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio. The stabbing suspect was shot in the street after stabbing four people in an attack that started inside the college. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
Police tape marks the scene outside Miami-Jacobs Career College where a stabbing occurred Wednesday, March 14, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio. The stabbing suspect was shot in the street after stabbing four people in an attack that started inside the college. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)

More than 20 people were injured or killed in a series of violent incidents across Chicago last weekend.

An altercation outside of a nightclub on West Division Street in the Gold Coast left four men injured, including a Chicago police officer, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Around 4 a.m. Sunday, a 24-year-old man allegedly pulled a knife, stabbing two men and battering a third before a police officer intervened, sustaining “non-life threatening injuries." Charges have not yet been filed.

Elsewhere in the city, at least three fatalities have been attributed to gun violence over the weekend, including 29-year-old man Dantrell Winford, who was found in Gresham Saturday night, 25-year-old Delwin Hawkins, who died at Advocate Christ Medical Center Saturday afternoon, and 18-year-old Thaddeus Tucker, who was found on a Far South Side sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds to the head at 1:50 a.m. Saturday, Fox Chicago reports.

Fourteen people were wounded by gunfire across the city over the weekend, including three women.

In South Austin Sunday night, Chicago police officers shot a man who refused to drop a tire iron during a standoff, NBC Chicago reports. Police say the man pulled a tire iron from his waistband when police approached, and was arrested and taken to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Two other men who fled the scene when police approached were not apprehended.

Outside of Chicago, 14-year-old Dajae Coleman was fatally shot in Evanston around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. Police believe he was not the intended target.

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