Bloody weekend! At least 63 shot in different shooting instances in Chicago; 10 dead

Chicago, August 6: The bloodiest episode which continued till 36 hours in Chicago finally stopped, however, left killing 10 and 53 injured including teenagers.

 

Notably, from Friday to Sunday, at least 63 people including teenagers were shot in Chicago out of which 10 were killed and 53 others were wounded. Majority of the shootings took place in six, tenth and 11th districts which are largely crowded.

Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Fred Waller at a press conference on Sunday afternoon said that during the two-and-a-half hour-hour period, 25 people were shot in five multi-injury shootings. “The most recent shooting took place near the 2600 block of South State Street just before 8 pm. In that incident, three people were standing in front of a residence when a shooter exited a car and opened fire, according to officials. Two women and one man were hit,” he said adding that the assailant then got back into the car and drove north on State Street.

Fred Waller said, “On Sunday early morning, a pair of shootings in the Lawndale neighborhood left a teen girl killed and nine people wounded. Later a 17-year-old Jahnae Patterson was killed and five other people wounded, including an 11-year-old boy in a shooting in the 1300-block of South Millard Avenue.”

In another incident, Fred Waller said a group of people including three teens and five adults were standing in a courtyard in the 1300-block of West 76th Street when several people approached on foot and opened fire at the group. The victims range in age from 14-years-old to 35 years old. “In one shooting in the Gresham neighborhood, eight people were wounded,” he added.

“Four peoples were shot, one fatally, in the North Austin neighborhood. While one man was killed and four others wounded in a shooting in the first block of North Leclaire Avenue in the South Austin neighborhood,” the Chicago Police Chief said.

Waller, in the end, said that the Chicago city has taken more than 5,500 guns off the streets this year. “Chicago has recorded more than 300 murders in 2018, more than any other US city,” he concluded.

The unfortunate incident raced through the city less than three days after hundreds of demonstrators temporarily shut down the city's Lake Shore Drive in protest of gun violence while calling for the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Importantly, Emanuel has called for expanded gun control measures in Chicago and across Illinois. The mayor faces a long line of challengers if he seeks re-election next year.