27 Shot Friday into Sunday Morning Across Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - MAY 15: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks to guests after taking th
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Twenty-seven people were shot, three of them fatally, Friday into Sunday morning across Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.

ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported a  58-year-old man was shot in the chest and killed “in the 1600 block of West 80th Street” just after midnight Saturday.

Two boys–one 14-years old and the other 15-years old–were shot at 4:45 p.m. Saturday “in the Fifth City neighborhood’s 100 block of South Homan Avenue.”

The 15-year-old was shot in the head and his wound proved fatal. The 14-year-old was shot multiple times but survived.

Four people were shot Sunday at 3 a.m. following a fight “inside a garage in the 5400-block of West Crystal Street.” The fight occurred inside a garage and a 31-year-old man died from gunshot wounds.

Breitbart News noted at least 32 people were shot last weekend in Mayor Johnson’s Chicago, three of them fatally.

The Sun-Times pointed out t256 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through June 17, 2023.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

 

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