Chicago shootings: At least 71 shot, 9 fatally, from Friday to Monday across city, police say
ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team, Christian Piekos, and Eric Horng WLS logo
Monday, June 17, 2024 9:12PM
CHICAGO (WLS) — The shooting victims from over the weekend range in age from 13 to 57, representing various parts of the city, and the violence has some seeking new solutions.
South Lawndale residents met with police on Monday following a staggering number of weekend shootings.
At least 71 people were shot, nine of them killed, across the city from Friday evening to Monday morning, police said.
“Seventy people being shot is 70 too many. The fact is, we’ve got work to do. While we’re making progress, we’ve got so much more to do,” said 22nd Ward Ald. Mike Rodriguez.
At least two-dozen people were shot during a five-hour period from midnight to 5 a.m. Monday.
Five of them were shot in West Humboldt Park after a large crowd had gathered at a gas station.
The gunfire sent people running in a moment of chaos captured by surveillance cameras.
About an hour later, at least seven people were shot in a barrage of gunfire near 62nd and Winchester in West Englewood.
“It was a whole lot of them. I know that. It was ‘bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.’ And then it was some more shots,” said resident Mary Retta Beamon Robinson.
Nearby, 17th Ward Alderman David Moore is fed up.
He says Friday night, he started camping out on 73rd Place between Ada and Racine, a block he describes as an open-air drug market.
His stay, which he chronicled on Facebook Live, was interrupted by nearby gunfire Saturday night.
Moore says no one was hit.
“We’ve got to un-cuff the hands of the police,” Moore said. “We can’t take the tools away from CPD, and I encourage this administration not to. That’s the bottom line.”
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