At least 37 people were shot, three of them fatally, Friday into Sunday afternoon across Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.
Breitbart News reported one of the shooting fatalities occurred in a drive-by incident Sunday morning just after 2 a.m. Five people in all were shot in the incident and a 40-year-old woman succumbed to her wounds.
ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported that a man was shot and killed “in the 1000 block of North California Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood” roughly 30 minutes after the drive-by incident occurred.
About 12:15 a.m. Sunday a 29-year-old was shot and killed while riding a bicycle “in the 600 block of West Scott Street.”
A database maintained by the Sun-Times shows some 316 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through July 16, 2023.
Chicago, like all of Illinois, has a red flag law, an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, a 72-hour waiting period on gun purchases, a licensing requirement for legal gun ownership (FOID Card), and numerous other gun controls.
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