At least three people were shot and killed in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago over the weekend, pushing the total number of murders in the city beyond 550 for 2024.
ABC 7 reported at least ten people were shot during the weekend, three of them fatally.
The weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred Saturday “at a home in the 1700-block of E. 67th Street” just after 12:30 a.m. A 23-year-old man was shot in the multiple times and transported to a hospital, where he died.
Hours later, at 4:32 a.m., a man “in the 8400-block of Kingston Avenue” was shot in the stomach. He, too, was transported to a hospital, where he died.
Sunday morning at 9:15 a.m. a 48-year-old man in an alley in the “8000-block of South Escanaba Avenue” was shot and fatally wounded. He was later pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
The Chicago Sun-Times‘ murder database shows that these killings pushed Chicago beyond 550 murders for the year. The city is now at 551 murders for 2024.
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