Fifteen people had been shot in Chicago over the weekend, which is less than half of the last weekend’s toll and the fewest in the city in months.

Chicago is on pace this year for the most homicides since 1998, when the police department declared that there were 704 homicides.

The number of people shot has also turned out to be the maximum in decades. Minimum 4,170 people have died so far this year, that marked a 40 percent increase over the total number of shootings in 2015.

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Three of the shootings had been reported fatal over the weekend.

45 years old Anthony Barr had been shot in the driver’s seat of an SUV, according to the police. Two people walked up, opened fire and hit him twice. Barr, who lived in Harvey, had been pronounced dead at the scene.

A 34 years old had been shot late on Friday in Chatham by someone he knew previously. They were involved in an altercation when the other person shot him in the chest. He was declared dead at Stroger Hospital. A person of interest had been taken to custody.

A 19 years old man had been killed in the North Austin neighborhood. He was in the 5500 block of West Crystal Street when two people had approached and one or both of them opened fire, and later fled in an old-mode sedan.

By Prakriti Neogi