At least 58 people have been shot in Chicago during Labor Day weekend, including eight children, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Five people have been killed in shootings since Friday evening, including a 4-year-old boy who was shot in the head.
Around 9 p.m. on Friday, stray bullets sprayed through the window of a home in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago. Two bullets struck 4-year-old Mychal Moultry Jr. in the head. He was getting a haircut at the time, according to Rahman Muhammad, deputy chief of the Chicago Police Department’s Detective Division. The boy’s father held him until paramedics arrived to take him to the Comer Children’s hospital.
“It’s hard enough with this mom and dad sitting in the hospital watching this little fella with tubes all down his body. He is trying to breathe,” community activist Andrew Holmes told WLS-TV about the boy when he was in the hospital.
The 4-year-old boy, who was visiting Chicago from Alabama, was pronounced dead on Sunday.
The Chicago Police Department is asking the public for help in the case to find those who committed the crime. Those with information can submit a tip on the Chicago Police Department website.
The Saint Sabina Catholic Church and the All Kids Matter organization are offering up to a $9,000 reward to bring the shooter or shooters to justice.
“We’re sick and tired every day,” an activist with All Kids Matter said. “We’re staking this hospital out night after night. All these children get shot throughout Chicago.”
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There were eight children shot during the bloody weekend in Chicago, including six kids shot in 12 hours from Saturday night into Sunday morning. Two of the wounded minors were recovering at Comer Children’s hospital as of Sunday morning.
So far this year, more than 280 children have been shot in Chicago, 35 of whom have died from their injuries, WLS-TV reported.
Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown gave an explanation why children are often the victims during a press conference on Monday.
“It’s always some other offender, gang member, criminal network, some beef, and they’re targeting some adult, and young people are nearby and they are shot as innocent bystanders,” Brown said.
Supt. Brown said the department seized 64 illegally possessed guns over the weekend.
Last weekend, at least 48 people were shot in Chicago, including six who were killed.
For the month of August, there were 78 homicides in Chicago, which is 14 more than August 2020. There have been 534 homicides in the city, according to data provided by the Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago had a total of 775 murders in 2020.
There were 372 shootings in August 2021, down slightly from 372 last year, according to Fox News.
I don’t believe it, Chicago has very strict gun laws.
What does it take to make you realize – GUNS LAWS HAVE NO EFFECT ON CRIMINALS!! They only affect law-abiding citizens!
It was sarcasm, lighten up. I’m a Constitutionalist.
Poor Tom- he must share the face-value gene with my wife.
When are the idiotic gun control freaks going to realize that people doing the killing are not the NRA members or other legal gun owners. Wake up fools.
When will the people of Chicago snap out of their semi-conscious state and get rid of that incompetent, beast of the earth idiot, Lightfoot, and install an actually intelligent and responsible individual as their mayor.
Maybe the herd’s not thinned out enough yet.
Unfortunately they will never realize gun laws don’t reduce crime because that’s not their mission. Their mission is to take our 2nd amendment rights away. Forget about logic here.
Thanks for the post Jim. You are correct. It has nothing to do with reducing crime but only removing the second amendment. That opens the door to removing the constitution and any form of law.
This is the effect of strict gun control laws. People lack the ability to return fire.
Way Togo Lori light foot time and time again you prove you don’t care about your citizens you should be physically removed from office
The big problem is criminals are the ones committing these shootings, not law abiding citizens. The left wants to take guns away from law abiding citizens but they have no plans to take them away from criminals. So what is going to stop the crime demos??? You will leave honest citizens vulnerable to the criminals who you allow to keep their guns. You have absolutely no idea how to take guns away from criminals so what is your plan?? You have none but you don’t address that, do you?? You are all disillusioned fools.
There is a way we send our active duty military to help gather intelligence and go after the bad actors. The police force is not suited for this type of warfare. It’s sad innocent children have to be hurt and killed. Pray for the children.
The city has handcuffed the police to do their job. It’s called defund the police and that is the outcome.
,,,only 58? They breed faster than that. Speed up the process.
Where is BLM protesting the shootings. Oh thats right only when a white shoots a black.
More shootings courtesy of the oh so law abiding negro breed.
I’m all in favor of letting them exterminate themselves, they are a useless semi-animal breed anyway!