104 shot, 14 fatally, in Chicago over Father's Day weekend

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A total of 104 people were shot in Chicago over the Father's Day weekend. Of the 14 shot dead, five were children, local media reported on Monday.

Those shootings from Friday to Monday produced the city's highest number of shooting victims in a single weekend this year.

"Bullets don't just tear apart the things they strike," Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said at Sunday's news conference. "Bullets also tear apart families. Bullets destroy neighborhoods and they ruin any sense of safety in a community."

The weekend saw more shootings but fewer fatalities than the last weekend of May, when 85 people had been shot, 24 fatally, making Chicago's deadliest weekend in years. 

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