At least 15 people shot to death over the weekend in Mayor’s Lightfoot neighborhood in Chicago
At least 15 people were shot dead, two of them fatally, over the weekend at City Hall by Laurie Lightfoot (D) Chicago.
alphabet 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reports that the two deaths occurred on Friday just after 2 p.m. at an apartment building “in the 9500 block of South Bennett Avenue.”
Shots were reported and a SWAT team was sent to the house. Upon entering, they found a 47-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to the head and a 44-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the chest. Both were dead at the scene.
No other details about their deaths are known.
NBC 5 notes that a 3-year-old boy was among those injured over the weekend. The boy was in a car parked by a 52-year-old man at about 2 am on Saturday when someone from another car opened fire. Both the boy and the 52-year-old driver were injured, but the man was able to take them to the hospital, where they were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
AND Sun Times The homicide database shows that from January 1, 2023 to January 29, 2023, 41 people were killed in Chicago.
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