Seven people were shot, four of them fatally, Tuesday alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
FOX 32 reports Tuesday’s first shooting fatality occurred at 3:15 p.m. when a 26-year-old man “near the sidewalk in the 1900 block of West 79th Street” was shot in the back.
The man was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.
Tuesday’s second shooting fatality was also the result of an individual being shot in the back. The shooting victim, a male of unknown age, was shot in the back while inside a Marathon gas station around 4:30 p.m. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
The Chicago Sun-Times notes that the third shooting fatality occurred at 5:10 p.m., when a 21-year-0ld male was shot and killed while “near the sidewalk in the 4000 block of West Madison Street.”
Tuesday’s fourth shooting fatality was discovered at 9:15 p.m., when a 46-year-old man was found with a gunshot wound to his chest. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
HeyJackass.com observes that 770 people have been shot and killed in Chicago thus far in 2021, and another 3,616 have been shot and wounded.
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