Memorial Day weekend mayhem leaves 53 shot, 11 fatally, in Chicago
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The gunshot victims included two toddlers who were accidentally shot and wounded in separate incidents and two teenagers, a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl, who were hurt in unrelated shootings while standing on sidewalks, according to a review by ABC News of the weekend incident reports from the Chicago Police Department.
On Tuesday, police officials said at least 53 people were shot across the city in 42 separate incidents that occurred between 6 p.m. on Friday and 11:59 p.m. on Monday.
Besides the 11 people who were fatally shot over the weekend, an additional person was fatally stabbed, according to police.
The string of shootings occurred as newly-elected Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's safety plan was deployed over the Memorial Day weekend. Johnson's initiative supports violence prevention programs, and youth outreach efforts by funding the work of more than 250 grassroots organizations across 24 communities on the West and South Sides of Chicago.
The spike in gun violence in Chicago comes as city leaders were seeing declines in both homicides and shootings this year. Before this past weekend, homicides in Chicago were down 7% from the 228 slayings that occurred in the first five months of 2022, according to the Chicago Police Department's crime statistics. Shooting incidents are also down 9% this year compared to last year, crime statistics say.
"This weekend, what you saw on display is that everybody recognizes that it's going to take all of us to unite this city and build a better, stronger, safer city," Johnson told reporters at a community event on Monday.
Johnson acknowledged that "we have a lot of work to do" to curb gun violence in Chicago and said poverty continues to be one of the primary reasons for the shootings and homicide
The spike in gun violence in Chicago comes as city leaders were seeing declines in both homicides and shootings this year. Before this past weekend, homicides in Chicago were down 7% from the 228 slayings that occurred in the first five months of 2022, according to the Chicago Police Department's crime statistics. Shooting incidents are also down 9% this year compared to last year, crime statistics say.
"This weekend, what you saw on display is that everybody recognizes that it's going to take all of us to unite this city and build a better, stronger, safer city," Johnson told reporters at a community event on Monday.
Johnson acknowledged that "we have a lot of work to do" to curb gun violence in Chicago and said poverty continues to be one of the primary reasons for the shootings and homicide
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