Thirty-three people were shot, five of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
Breitbart News notes that 21 people were shot, four of them fatally, Friday into Saturday night alone.
On Friday, one of the shooting fatalities was a three-year-old boy shot and killed during an apparent road rage incident.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports the total number of shooting fatalities had risen to five by Monday morning, with a total of 33 shooting victims.
Around 5:20 a.m. Sunday, a man was shot and killed “in the 300 block of West Division Street” following an argument. Police found the man lying on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds.
September 2022 was a violent month in Chicago with 55 people shot during Labor Day weekend alone, 11 of them fatally. The next weekend, September 9-11, nearly 30 people were shot, five of them fatally.
The third weekend of the month, September 16-18, nearly 60 were shot, nine of them fatally. And almost 40 were shot during the final weekend in September 2022, four of them fatally.
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. AWR Hawkins holds a PhD 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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