This is really just tragic. Gun violence in Chicago is really getting out of hand this summer. On top of the 82 who were shot and 14 who were killed during 4th of July weekend this year, another 40 people were shot, killing 4, this weekend alone. Find out more after the jump.
What makes this so terrible more than anything is that innocent children are dying. Among them was 11 year old Shamiya Adams who was struck by a stray bullet coming from the bedroom window at a sleep over party.
According to NBC Chicago, these are the cases of the rest of who were killed this weekend:
• A 24-year-old man was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at the scene and a man in his 30s was shot in the torso and taken in stable condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, according to authorities.
• Police said a 21-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman were getting into a cab around 6 p.m. in the 900 block of North Mayfield Avenue when they “heard shots and felt pain,” police said.
The 43-year-old woman was shot in the leg and suffered a graze wound to the head and was taken to West Suburban Medical Center and the 53-year-old cab driver was shot in the abdomen and both thighs and was transported to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County. Both were listed in stable condition.
The 21-year-old man suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body and head and was transported in critical condition to West Suburban Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead, according to Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada.
• In another fatal shooting Saturday, a 30-year-old man was found shot to death in a car in the South Austin neighborhood.The man was discovered unresponsive in the driver’s seat of a car parked in an alley in the 0-100 block of North Laramie Avenue just after 3 a.m. Saturday, police said.
