At least 100 people shot, 17 fatally, during violent Fourth of July weekend in Chicago – up 27% from last year’s holiday
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By Fabiana Chaparro and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Chicago experienced a spate of gun violence over the long Fourth of July holiday weekend during which 102 people were shot, including at least a dozen fatally, according to police reports. From July 3 at 6 p.m. CT through July 7 at 6 a.m. CT, at
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By Fabiana Chaparro and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Chicago experienced a spate of gun violence over the long Fourth of July holiday weekend during which 102 people were shot, including at least a dozen fatally, according to police reports. From July 3 at 6 p.m. CT through July 7 at 6 a.m. CT, at
More than 100 people were shot in Chicago over the holiday weekend. “We are ... talking about a violent weekend because of generations of disinvestment,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.
The shootings — which began in earnest Thursday and claimed the lives of several kids — have stunned a city that had previously watched both homicides and nonfatal shootings drop compared to last year.
Shootings in Chicago over the July Fourth weekend left 19 people dead, including two women who died shielding children from gunfire, and more than 100 injured.
(CNN) — Gun violence is down across America this year but it peaks every summer and Chicago’s Fourth of July weekend bore the data out, with 109 people
