Two Fatal West Side Shootings Among 5 During New Year's Holiday Weekend

Religious music accompanied the sunrise on Sunday morning at the scene of a fatal West Side shooting that was one of five recorded in Chicago since Friday evening.

John Warship, 39, was shot and killed just before 6 a.m. in the West Garfield Park neighborhood's 4400 block of West Wilcox Street, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

"Officers found Warship on the sidewalk in the 4600 block of West Monroe Street after responding to a call of shots fired," the story said, adding that he was pronounced dead of multiple gunshot wounds at 6:10 a.m. "Officers guarded his body, which was covered by a white sheet."

Another man, Kenneth Weaver, 22, was killed on Saturday afternoon in the 4800 block of West Chicago Avenue. Police say the shooter was someone with whom Weaver was arguing after a car accident.

The two West Side shootings were among five fatal ones between 4:30 p.m. on Friday and 11 p.m. on Sunday. Others included a two-man shootout in Uptown and gunfire in the South Side's Gresham neighborhood that left a 15-year-old dead.

The incidents followed news of 2016 being among Chicago's bloodiest years — 762 total homicides; an average of two per day.