Chicago shootings: July 4th weekend sees more than 100 people shot, 19 killed | Fox News
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Chicago's explosive Fourth of July weekend left 19 people dead and more than 100 others wounded in shootings, including multiple mass shootings, across the Windy City in a four-day span, according to police.
The victims included two women, Neekshia Strong, 45, and Capri Edwards, 24, who lost their lives shielding children from gunfire on Independence Day, FOX 32 Chicago reported. Bullets struck all three of the boys with them, ages 5, 8 and 8. One of the boys died.
"There was also a 1-year-old at that location inside the home, who luckily and thankfully was not harmed but was traumatized by the event," Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling told reporters during a Monday morning news briefing.
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Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling responds to a question during a news conference on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, in Chicago. Snelling asked for city residents to come forward with information about violent crime after a weekend of shootings left 19 dead and more than 100 hurt.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Those victims were all from a single shooting. Police responded to dozens over the weekend, including an incident in Little Italy that left eight people wounded between the ages of 18 and 74.
We need every single person to step up. We need people to start coming forward. We need people to take responsibility. Help us help you. We want to take these people off the street.
— Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling
"These are not just numbers on pages, these are not just headlines in the news," Mayor Brandon Johnson said during the briefing. "No, these are our fellow Chicagoans, our neighbors, family members, who've lost their lives."
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks to reporters on Jan. 29, 2024 in Chicago. Johnson blamed illegally purchased firearms for widespread, deadly violence in his city after the July Fourth weekend saw more than 100 people shot, 19 fatally.(Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Snelling slammed the "brazenness" of a suspect who could barge into a home and shoot at women and children and repeatedly called on residents to come forward with information.
"Just think about that again, children who are being shot in our city," he said. "Somebody knows something. Somebody knows who the offenders are in these cases, and it's really important that we work with our communities and our communities understand that we're trying to work with [them]."
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Chicago police want to take violent offenders off the streets and keep them locked up, and they are asking for witnesses to come forward to help them do so.(Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto)
He also took a subtle swipe at some of Illinois' progressive bail reforms that allow more suspects out of jail before their trials and said his focus is on the victims.
"We have to take them off the street, and we have to keep them off the street so they don't destroy other families," he said.
Johnson vowed consequences for violent criminals and placed the blame on "generations of disinvestment" and illegally purchased firearms, which he said are fueling a culture of violence in Chicago, using the example of a 16-year-old with an AK-47.
Someone like that has a history of violence long before they unlawfully obtain a weapon, he said.
"We will not let criminal activity ruin and harm our city," he added.
Chicago is hosting the 2024 Democratic National Convention.(Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
In just over a month, the city will host the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
Leaders are hoping to keep the city's violence problem out of view during the event, with cordoned-off safe zones and a huge increase in security.
While murders have declined two years in a row after rising in 2020 and 2021, violent crime as a whole, led by soaring robberies, has climbed in the Windy City, police statistics show. Yearly car thefts nearly tripled between 2020 and 2023 from 9,910 to 29,287.
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HOLY SHIT. Crazy town...................
Liberal "common sense gun laws" in full effect.
It's always the guns' fault.
Never the shooter's fault, nor the fault of dumbass "prosecutors" who won't do their jobs effectively, or some proponents of "sentencing reform" which turn out criminals with lighter or no sentences.
Pathetic and chicken shit excuse. And you're right. Pathetic prosecutors who won't do their job but will, instead pander to the bullshit.
Sadly, many idiots still think we need yet MORE Soros-backed idiots serving as prosecutors.
Do we blame Indiana's gun laws? or do we deflect to incomplete FBI states on violence? or point out that a liberal city in a red state has worse murders per capita? so many choices. I know, Republicans fault for not passing common sense gun laws while not being able to articulate how we get criminals to follow them.
Bidenomics
More people shot their then in Ukraine.
I [✘] imagine most large inner cities had an increase in violence over the extremely hot holiday weekend
Then you can provide the evidence to back that up. Should be easy as the media and Democrats would be all over it.
"Johnson vowed consequences for violent criminals and placed the blame on "generations of disinvestment" and illegally purchased firearms, which he said are fueling a culture of violence in Chicago, using the example of a 16-year-old with an AK-47."
I don't think most criminals legally purchase guns, but his honor the mayor puts the blame on the guns instead of the trigger pullers once again. There has an increasing trend in Chicago and across the country of being soft on criminals and quickly releasing them back into society without punishment or restrictions
The DNC convention should be a very interesting time, since all the bad actors are likely to show up there at the same time....
The local gang bangers Antifa, BLM, the Palestinian/Hamas supporting thugs, unhappy leftists.
School is out and there is no other place for the radical fringe to go. It will be interesting in many ways.
How often do you here from anti-fa and BLM nowadays?
Check any pro Hamas rally and you will find them.
An 8-year-old boy and two women were killed and two young boys were critically injured in a shooting about 6:15 a.m. Thursday. Multiple people fired into a home in the 7100 block of South Woodlawn Avenue in Greater Grand Crossing on the South Side.
What happened to "quiet time" between 10 PM and 8 AM in residential districts?
. The "defund the police" mayor keeps pretty much half the force detailed to his personal security, so not much help to go around for the mere commoners. He'll go far in progressive politics.