While Lori Lightfoot whines about illegal migrants being bused to her city from Texas, Chicago saw yet another violent weekend. A total of 46 people were shot, 7 fatally over the Labor Day weekend in Chicago. But you know, Greg Abbott is a racist or something.
At least 46 people have been shot, seven fatally, in Labor Day weekend shootings across Chicago, police said.
A man was fatally shot after an argument Saturday night in West Woodlawn on the South Side. The man, 29, was arguing with another man inside a residence about 11:15 p.m. in the 6600-block of South Evans Avenue when he was shot in the neck and arm, Chicago police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. No one was in custody. Detectives are investigating.
Another man was shot and killed on the city’s North Side overnight Saturday, Chicago police said. The shooting happened at about 12:04 a.m. Saturday in the Old Town neighborhood’s 1300-block of North Hudson Avenue, police said. Officers responded to a call of shots fired in the area and discovered a 31-year-old man on the ground with a gunshot wound to the chest, police said. The victim was transported by the Chicago Fire Department to Northwestern Hospital in critical condition and was later pronounced dead, police said. The medical examiner later identified him as Garvis C. Jones. No one is in custody and Area Three detectives are investigating.
Hours later, a man was killed in a shooting in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side. The man, 22, was found with multiple gunshot wounds about 3 a.m. in the 6000-block of South Racine Avenue, Chicago police said. He suffered gunshot wounds in the chest and arm and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said. No one was in custody.