More than 50 people were shot, 11 fatally, over a violent Memorial Day weekend in Chicago, police say.
Police are shown at the scene of a shooting in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend.The gunshot victims included two toddlers who were accidentally shot and wounded in separate incidents and two teenagers, a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl, who were hurt in unrelated shootings while standing on sidewalks, according to a review by ABC News of the weekend incident reports from the Chicago Police Department.
The string of shootings occurred as newly-elected Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's safety plan was deployed over the Memorial Day weekend. Johnson's initiative supports violence prevention programs, and youth outreach efforts by funding the work of more than 250 grassroots organizations across 24 communities on the West and South Sides of Chicago.The spike in gun violence in Chicago comes as city leaders were seeing declines in both homicides and shootings this year.
"Poverty didn't go away over the weekend," Johnson said. "We understand that when communities have been disinvested in and traumatized, that you're seeing the manifestation of that trauma."MORE: More than 13,900 people killed in gun violence so far in 2023 Around 2:09 a.m. on Saturday, four people were shot in a drive-by shooting, including a 69-year-old woman who was killed, according to police. Witnesses told police that the gunfire came from a vehicle and was aimed at a car containing three men, who all suffered gunshot wounds. Police later discovered the 69-year-old woman alone in another car, suffering from a bullet wound to the side. She was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
Also on Saturday, an unidentified man, described as 25 to 30 years old, was found shot multiple times in the Humboldt Park area in the northwest section of the city and was later pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital, police said.
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