kansascity | Given the futility of lobbying, James said, he would consider trying to
mobilize on a large scale, with numbers that showed “some mass behind
the ass.”
Bernice Brown, 43, was killed Wednesday afternoon while trying to break up fight involving her son. Later that afternoon Xindong Hao, 38, was killed when a man police say was on PCP killed him with a shotgun. Tyrone Standifer, 54, was found fatally shot Thursday in a vehicle with a wounded man. Two women, not yet identified, were found dead in separate crime scenes early Sunday morning brought the death toll to five.
But then, Monday afternoon, police announced that a man shot late Saturday night near 39th Street and Chelsea Avenue had succumbed to his wounds, bringing the toll to six.
chicagotribune | “All of us know that this is not Chicago, what we saw,” an emotional
Emanuel, sounding a familiar refrain as he seeks re-election to a third
term, told reporters. “We are better than what we saw.”
At least 74 people were shot, 12 fatally, between 3 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Monday. The victims ranged in age from 11 to 62.
According
to Tribune data, it marked the worst violence of any single weekend in
Chicago since at least before 2016, the year in which homicides hit
records unseen for two decades.
And
Sunday saw more victims shot in a single day since at least September
2011 when the Tribune began tracking every shooting in Chicago. For the
entire day, 47 people were shot, including a stunning 40 during a
seven-hour period early Sunday.
At a late-morning news conference
at the Gresham District station on the South Side, Johnson acknowledged
in answer to a reporter’s question that no arrests had been made in any
of the dozens of shootings over the weekend.
