At least 15 people were shot, five of them fatally, during the weekend across Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred Friday night around 8:30 p.m. “in the 7600 block of North Greenview Avenue.” A 36-year-old man was sitting in a car when another vehicle pulled along side him and someone in the second vehicle opened fire.
The 36-year-old was transported to a hospital where he died.
At 3 a.m. Saturday morning two men, a 31-year-old and a 32-year-old, were sitting in a car “in the 1400 block of North Avers Avenue” when someone in another vehicle opened fire on them as well. Both men were shot multiple times, and the 31-year-old succumbed to his wounds.
A 17-year-old boy was shot in the chest around 2:50 p.m. “in the 13000 block of South Drexel Avenue.” He was rushed to the hospital in critical condition and he later died.
Hours later, at 6:40 p.m., a 40-year-old man “in the 7900 block of South Western Avenue” was approached by someone who drew a gun and opened fire. The 40-year-old was transported to a hospital for his wounds and he died shortly thereafter.
FLASHBACK: Hawkins — Chicago’s New Mayor Means “Same Song, Different Verse” on Gun Policy
A 22-year-old man was shot in the head Sunday morning around 3:50 a.m. Sunday. He was one of two individuals shot “in the 3000 block of South Trumbull Avenue.”
The 22-year-old died later in a hospital.
The Sun-Times maintains a database that shows that 522 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through November 12, 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