15 Shot Tuesday Alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago

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Fifteen people were shot, two of them fatally, on Tuesday alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

NBC 5 reported the first of the two shooting fatalities was a 66-year-old man who was shot and killed while walking “in the 4600 block of West Van Buren Street” about 7:50 a.m.

A van pulled up alongside the 66-year-old and someone inside the vehicle opened fire.

The second shooting fatality of the day occurred at 10:20 p.m., when someone pulled alongside a woman who was driving “in the 3400 block of West 60th Place” and opened fire. The woman was shot in the head and transported to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Breitbart News noted at least 22 people were shot, four of them fatally, over the weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s increasingly strife-torn city.

HeyJackass.com notes 202 people have been shot and wounded in Chicago thus far in October 2021, and another 32 have been shot and killed.

Year-to-date figures show that 3,151 people have been shot and wounded and in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago, and another 649 have been shot and killed.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkinsa 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. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

 

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