Thursday, July 6, 2017

102 shot, 15 fatally, in Chicago over July 4th holiday weekend

The violence plaguing Chicago made international headlines Wednesday, after a violent and bloody Fourth of July weekend. Of the 102 people shot since Friday night, 15 have died. Police said most of the shootings happened Monday night on the South and West sides of the city."You just destroyed somebody"s family," one of the victim"s relatives, John Davis, said. His uncle, 56-year-old Tyrone Burdine, was fatally shot Tuesday evening in front of his home, with children narrowly escaping the gunfire."Here comes this car speeding through the alley, shooting. My mom could have got killed, my auntie"s kids could have got killed. They don"t care," Davis said.Burdine was among 15 people in Chicago shot and killed over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Detectives said they believe several of the shootings were motivated by gang retaliation, and alcohol was a factor in many others."We"re not happy, I can tell you that. Definitely not happy," Chicago Police Department First Dep. Kevin Navarro said.Chicago Police staffed 1,300 additional officers, made arrests before the weekend of those with repeat offenses and active warrants and used the technology of the AFT"s ballistic mobile van.

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