20 Shot During Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago

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At least 20 people were shot, three of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported that the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred around 7:00 p.m. Friday night following a verbal altercation. Seventeen-year-old Daniel Rios was shot “in the 670- block of West Belmont Avenue” after the altercation. He died later in a hospital.

At approximately 5:40 p.m. Saturday, 30-year-old Timothy Taylor and another individual “were on the street in the 7000-block of South Lafayette Avenue” when someone opened fire on them.  Taylor was shot multiple times and died after being transported to a hospital.

The weekend’s third fatal shooting was discovered at 12:51 a.m. Sunday, when officers found a 15-year-old girl who had been shot in the back of the head. She was in the back seat of a vehicle in the “10600-block of South Sangamon Street.” She was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

The Sun-Times observed that 134 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through April 9, 2023.

Chicago’s Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson (D) supports the “defund police movement,” calling it an “actual, real, political goal.”

FILE - Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson participates in a public safety forum in Chicago, Tuesday, March 14, 2023. How best to manage Chicago’s financial challenges is among the many issues separating candidates Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas heading into the April 4 runoff for mayor. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford, File)

FILE – Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson participates in a public safety forum in Chicago on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford, File).

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