At Least 32 Shot During Weekend in Brandon Johnson’s Chicago

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - MARCH 07: Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson holds a press conf
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At least 32 people were shot, three of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.

ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported that among the fatalities was a man who was among four people shot in a drive-by incident Friday.

The incident occurred about 8:15 p.m., and the four individuals were on the sidewalk “in the 6300 block of South Artesian Avenue” when someone drove up in a black car and opened fire.

About 7:50 p.m. Saturday, three other individuals were shot in a drive-by “in the 5300 block of South Kostner Avenue.” One of the three died as a result.

Early Monday morning, a 15-year-old girl was shot in the face and died after being transported to a hospital. The shooting occurred at 12:14 a.m. “in the 2600-block of South Millard Avenue.”

Breitbart News reported at least 30 people were shot last weekend in Mayor Johnson’s Chicago. Five of those shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.

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.

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