At least 50 people have been shot, 10 fatally, in Chicago shootings so far this Memorial Day weekend, police said.
It's been a violent and deadly Memorial Day weekend in Chicago with at least 50 shot, 10 fatally, police said.The violence occurred despite a collaborative public safety effort that the new mayor hopes to implement all summer.
A 59-year-old man, 57-year-old woman, and a 77-year-old man were all hit and transported to local hospitals. Sunday night, police say a 2-year-old boy was shot while was playing in a bedroom with an adult when a gun went off - the boy was hit in the right hand. Mayor Brandon Johnson spent the weekend at various neighborhood gatherings... aimed at keeping streets safe.
Community activists and residents in Lakeview are meeting to hold a press conference to bring attention to this weekend's violence.A man was killed and a woman was injured in a West Garfield Park shooting early Sunday, police said. The 35-year-old man and 30-year-old woman were sitting in a parked car in the 4100-block of West Taylor Street around 2:09 a.m. when someone fired shots, Chicago police said. The man was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Just under an hour earlier, a 14-year-old girl suffered a graze wound during a shooting in Englewood. Just before 10 p.m., the teen was standing on a sidewalk with a group of people in the 7000-block of South Ada Street when the shots were fired, Chicago police said. She suffered a graze wound to the right arm and was treated at the scene, but declined to be taken to a hospital, police said. No one was in custody.
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