After Uvalde, holiday weekend sees shootings nationwide

Chicago police and SWAT officers investigate on the 4400 block of West Walton Street where an alleged gunman barricaded himself in a building after one man was killed and three other people were wounded in a shooting in West Humboldt Park on the West Side, Sunday night, May 29, 2022, in Chicago. The suspect also suffered a gunshot wound in the incident, but officers didn't fire any shots, police said. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Chicago police investigate on the 800 block of South Karlov Avenue, where a 16-year-old girl was among five people seriously wounded in a shooting near Daniel Webster Elementary School in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, early Sunday, in Chicago. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

CHICAGO — Even as the nation reeled over the massacre of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, multiple mass shootings happened elsewhere over the Memorial Day weekend in areas both rural and urban. Single-death incidents still accounted for most gun fatalities.

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