At least 20 people were shot, three of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported that the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred around 7:00 p.m. Friday night following a verbal altercation. Seventeen-year-old Daniel Rios was shot “in the 670- block of West Belmont Avenue” after the altercation. He died later in a hospital.
At approximately 5:40 p.m. Saturday, 30-year-old Timothy Taylor and another individual “were on the street in the 7000-block of South Lafayette Avenue” when someone opened fire on them. Taylor was shot multiple times and died after being transported to a hospital.
The weekend’s third fatal shooting was discovered at 12:51 a.m. Sunday, when officers found a 15-year-old girl who had been shot in the back of the head. She was in the back seat of a vehicle in the “10600-block of South Sangamon Street.” She was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
The Sun-Times observed that 134 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through April 9, 2023.
Chicago’s Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson (D) supports the “defund police movement,” calling it an “actual, real, political goal.”
FILE – Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson participates in a public safety forum in Chicago on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford, File).
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