Eighteen people were shot, two of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 reports the first of the two shooting fatalities was discovered around 7:50 a.m., when a man was discovered shot to death in East Garfield Park.
FOX 32 notes the man had been shot 16 times. He was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.
The second fatal shooting occurred Sunday morning just after 1:30 a.m. “in the 400 block of South Wells Street,” where a 24-year-old and a 38-year-old got into an argument that turned physical.
The 24-year-old pulled a gun and shot the 38-year-old, who was rushed to a hospital, where he died. The 24-year-old was taken into custody.
ABC 7 observed that the violent weekend was followed by three people being shot Monday morning “on a downtown feeder ramp to the Kennedy Expressway.” The victims’ injuries are non-life-threatening.
The Chicago Sun-Times points out that 527 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2022, through October 9, 2022.
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