At least 50 people were shot Thursday into Sunday morning of July 4th weekend across Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.
Six of the shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.
ABC 7 reported one of the shooting fatalities occurred around 12:30 a.m. Thursday “in the South Shore neighborhood’s 7100-block of South Jeffery Boulevard.” Two women–ages 37 and 29–were inside a man’s home when the man pulled a gun and demanded they hand over their valuables. The women resisted and the man opened fire. The 29-year-old was “shot in the neck and chest” and died thereafter at the hospital.
At 1:20 p.m. Thursday, a 21-year-old man was on the sidewalk “in the 9900-block of South Bensley Avenue” when someone drove up beside him and began shooting. The 21-year-old was hit by multiple rounds and died after being transported to the hospital.
Another shooting occurred round 11 p.m. Friday in the “1200-block of East 83rd Street,” leaving a 16-year-old girl dead. The girl was with a 35-year-old man when someone approached and began shooting. The girl was shot in the throat and succumbed to her wounds.
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Minutes later–just before midnight Friday–officers responded to a call about a shooting “in the West Englewood neighborhood’s 6400-block of South Winchester Avenue” and found a 36-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head. The man was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
Saturday morning around 5 a.m., a 30-year-old with a gunshot wound to the head was found unresponsive in the “1000-block of North Lavergne Avenue.” He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Also Saturday morning, a 46-year-old man was shot while sitting in a vehicle in the “800-block of North Cambridge Avenue.” The incident occurred around 9:45 a.m. and the man was also pronounced dead at the scene.
Breitbart News noted that 18 people were shot outside a nightclub in Chicago the night before the Fourth of July weekend began. Multiple gunmen opened fire on a crowd outside the club and four of the shooting victims died from their wounds.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that 199 people have been killed in Chicago thus far in 2025.
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