Warm Weather Breeds Violence

At least three people were killed and 17 wounded in shootings across the city late Tuesday and early this morning, according to police.

In one of the fatal shootings, three men were shot in a parking lot across the street from the headquarters of the UIC Police Department, police said.

The shooting happened about 10:40 p.m. in the 1000 block of West Maxwell Street, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Amina Greer said.

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All three men were taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. The conditions of two of them, ages 19 and 21, were stabilized at the hospital, Greer said.

The third man, 19-year-old Tytrell Jackson, was pronounced dead at 11:13 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

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