Chicago Thanksgiving weekend: 8 killed, 62 wounded. 4000 wounded this year.

Shootings spike over Thanksgiving holiday weekend: 8 killed, 62 wounded

A 37-year-old man was shot to death in the 3800 block of West Adams Street in the West Garfield Park area on Nov. 27, 2016. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.

 (Eric Clark / Chicago Tribune)

Megan CrepeauContact Reporter

Chicago saw one its most violent Thanksgiving holidays in years, with eight people killed and 62 others wounded between late Wednesday afternoon and early Monday.

The toll towers over the number of shootings in the previous two Thanksgiving holiday weekends, according to data kept by the Tribune.

In 2014, five people were killed, including a woman inside the Nordstrom's store on Michigan Avenue, and 14 others were wounded. Last year, eight people were killed, including a 16-year-old boy, and 20 were wounded, the data show.

This year's tally does not include the three people shot dead by Chicago police over the holiday period.

In one of those shootings, authorities said officers fired at a man who had just shot two people, one of them fatally, early Friday in the Homan Square neighborhood on the West Side.  In another shooting Sunday night, authorities said an officer shot and killed a manwho wounded a pregnant woman in West Garfield Park.

Early Saturday in the South Chicago neighborhood, a 20-year-old man was killed and five others were wounded at a house party, police said. 

The number of people shot in Chicago this year is around 4,000, more than 1,000 above this time last year, according to Tribune data.