Homicides rise in Chicago, illegal gun seizures fall

The statistics come almost exactly three months after the city, on the orders of a judge, released the video of Jason Van Dyke, a white officer, firing 16 shots at Laquan McDonald, a black teen killed in 2014.

Since that day, Van Dyke has been charged with murder, and Superintendent Garry McCarthy has been fired.

In the first two months of the year, authorities recorded 95 homicides, compared with 48 for the same period last year.

[...] far, there have been 406 shootings, or more than twice as many as the 180 reported in the same two-month period in 2015.