About 7:25 a.m., the man, 32, was driving in the 4400 block of West Gladys Avenue when he was shot multiple times throughout his body, Chicago police said. No one is currently in custody and an investigation is ongoing.Ī man was shot to death Monday morning while driving in the West Garfield Park neighborhood. Police said four firearms were recovered from the scene. A 21-year-old man was struck in the leg by gunfire and self-transported to Christ Hospital where he is in good condition. A 19-year-old man was struck in the leg by gunfire and taken to Holy Cross Hospital in good condition. A 16-year-old boy was struck in the arm by gunfire and taken to University of Chicago Hospital in good condition. Police said a 20-year-old man was struck in the head by gunfire and pronounced dead at the scene. The victims' vehicle crashed into a semi-truck at the intersection of 79th and Columbus, police said. when people in another car that was driving in the opposite direction began shooting at them. Police said 4 males were driving in a car in the 3200-block of West 79th Street around 2:35 p.m. Other holiday weekend shootingsĬhicago police said one person was killed and three others were injured in a shooting and crash on the South Side Monday. Relatives of Brian said he was not the intended target, but police said they aren't sure, and their investigation is ongoing. But, everybody knows that if your only strategy is policing, that is the old way of doing things," Johnson said. And so, yes, it requires some policing strategies that are more strategic and smart. "We have a layered, multi-tiered approach. Johnson would not say if anything specific in the policing strategy needs to change to stem the violence, which he says is a problem he inherited. And, in River North, home security video showed a man being chased down and shot on Erie Street. There was another shooting on the CTA Red Line at a station in Chinatown. "Fifteen-year-olds, 14-year-olds, you all know I'm raising children in Chicago. "Every time I read and hear about another life that is lost because of violence, my heart breaks," Johnson said. On the West Side, two teens were shot, one of them killed near Garfield Park. A shooting in Lincoln Park near the zoo left five people injured. The weekend violence touched many other parts of the city. On the South Side, where violence at a Father's Day gathering in a park left two men dead.Ĭhicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said on Monday that every loss of life is heartbreaking. The robbers eventually fled in a white car without taking the victim's vehicle. However, the number of injured in most of the cases matches the widely accepted definition for mass shootings.The 52-year-old victim was shot in the back by one of the attackers when he tried to run away. Theories include the possibility that violence is driven by the prevalence of guns in America, or by less aggressive police tactics or a decline in prosecutions for misdemeanor weapon offenses, Nagin said.Īs of Sunday evening, none of the weekend events fit the definition of a mass killing, because fewer than four people died at each location. Researchers disagree over the cause of the increase.
“Some of these cases seem to be just disputes, often among adolescents, and those disputes are played out with firearms, not with fists.” Investigators look over the scene of an overnight mass shooting at a strip mall in Willowbrook, Ill., Sunday, June 18, 2023. “There’s no question there’s been a spike in violence,” said Daniel Nagin, a professor of public policy and statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. Louis, Southern California and Baltimore. They happened in suburban Chicago, Washington state, central Pennsylvania, St.
The shootings follow a surge in homicides and other violence over the past several years that experts say accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic. killed at least six people, including a Pennsylvania state trooper, and left dozens injured. A spate of weekend mass shootings and violence across the U.S.
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