Monday brought an end to a violent weekend in Chicago, where police said shootings left five people dead and more than 50 others injured.
A number of the victims shot between 4 p.m. on Friday and 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, which includes an 11-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy, were struck while walking city sidewalks or sitting in vehicles. One man was shot while he was asleep in his bed, according to a review of police incident reports.
The 11-year-old girl was sitting inside a car at about 9 p.m. on Sunday when another vehicle drove by and fired multiple shots, striking her once in the lower back, police said. She was transported to a local hospital in serious condition.
“The investigation is very active right now. Obviously, detectives are looking to speak to more people, looking for videos,” Chicago police Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan said during a press conference on Monday.
GIRL, 14, SHOT IN HEAD WHILE WALKING HER DOG THROUGH CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD
The 15-year-old boy suffered a gunshot wound to his right leg while standing outside on Sunday evening. He was transported to a local hospital in stable condition.
Eight people were wounded in one shooting incident that occurred at about 4 a.m. Sunday morning. Two occupants in a silver vehicle fired shots into the group of victims, who were standing on the sidewalk. Six of the victims were transported to local hospitals in critical condition, and more than 40 shell casings were found on the scene of the shooting, according to the Chicago Tribune.
A 24-year-old man was asleep in his bed when he was struck twice in his leg from shots fired outside that entered through the drywall in the early morning hours of Saturday, police said.
Just before 7:30 p.m. on Friday, a 26-year-old man was riding a bicycle on the street when he was shot. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
Five of the weekend’s shooting victims were killed, including a 23-year-old man who was shot and killed Friday while in a backyard in the Austin neighborhood of west Chicago.
Police also found a 24-year-old man unresponsive in a vehicle on Friday with gunshot wounds to the head and chest. Both were pronounced dead at the hospital.
A 43-year-old man was shot in the head Friday at about 9:21 p.m. as he was on a sidewalk in the city’s South Side. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
“Much of the violence we see in Chicago is about the gang cultures, revenge, retaliation, and street justice,” Chicago police Superintendent David Brown said Monday.
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The city reported an especially violent May with 1,386 people shot through month’s end, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, up from the 1,116 people shot through May 2020.
