Eight killed and 50 wounded in dozens of Chicago shootings over Labor Day weekend | Chicago
According to the police, eight people were killed in dozens of fire in Chicago, and 50 people were injured in dozens of shots in Chicago.
Between Friday night and Monday night, a total of 58 people were shot in 37 separate shots in the third largest city of the country, according to the preliminary information of the police. Most of them contained one victim, but more than one person was injured in three shots. Most of the victims were good or fair, but many of them were listed in serious or critical states. In a handful case, the police said that a person who was interested was questioned, but most of them were in custody.
During the weekend of the Labor Day last year, six people were killed and seven people were killed and more than 20 people were injured during the holiday weekend.
The number of withdrawals reflects a widespread event, especially in the summer months when some areas on the western and southern sides of the city have lived with higher crime rates, during the summer months, especially during the summer weekends in the summer months. The city’s police department and other agencies often increase their own street presence before weekends this summer, as well as community groups aiming to reduce the risk of arms violence.
However, this weekend violence received a higher national investigation for using the federal agencies of Donald Trump’s management or probably the threat of using national guard troops on the streets of Chicago.
Seven people were shot along South State Street late on Saturday, and the police said that the preliminary investigation showed that a person in a passing vehicle opened fire on the crowd. Victims, two women and five men, are listed in good condition.
About two hours later, at 1 am on Sunday, a few miles away from the Western Haddon Boulevard, four people were shot and the police said that the preliminary investigations showed that people in the two -passing vehicle opened fire on people standing outside. The police said that the victims, one of them and three women, were listed in good condition.
In the early hours of Monday, the officers who responded to a major discomfort report heard gunfire at a short distance, and then found five people from the shooting Saturday night at South Cottage Grove Boulevard. Police said a 17 -year -old child was listed in critical situations. Other victims are listed in a good or fair state of all adults. Four firearms were rescued from the shooting scene and one who was interested was questioned.
The Trump administration recently deployed the national guard troops to Washington DC to target crime, migration and homelessness, and previously sent troops to Los Angeles. On Saturday, Trump quickly warned JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, on a social media broadcast, “or we are coming,“ Chicago’s crime problems quickly.
The Trump administration is expected to expand immigration operations in Chicago. On Sunday, NOEM, the Secretary of the Department of Interior Security, confirmed plans for the existence of federal agents in the city.
The Republican President criticized both Democrats Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and stressed that the crime fell in Chicago by planning to file a lawsuit as the plan progressed.
On Saturday, Johnson announced in Twitter/X that he signed an executive order that directed all city departments to “protecting Chicago people and not collaborating with Federal Excessive Access”, and said that they could not perfectly predict how an irregular and impulsive management would act ”.
Violent offenses have fallen in Chicago in recent years, but it continues to be a permanent localized problem for the city with a population of 2.75 million. According to the Chicago University Crime Laboratory, some neighborhoods with the highest murder rates have 68 times more murders than those with the lowest rates.
According to the Rochester Institute of Technology, last year, the city reported that most of the US city of USA, 573 murders.
According to the police, murders and shots have fallen compared to the same period last year this year. There were 404 murders between January 1 – September 1, but this year on 279th. 2024 between 1 January and 1 September, but this year, but so far 1,026.
