The details of one deadly weekend in Chicago: 71 shot, 9 dead. – Wirepoints

By: Ted Dabrowski

Chicago’s summer carnage. The whole thing is ugly and cold. It feels cheap to expose the details. But murder and trauma is the harsh reality of what’s happening in the city, where local and state leaders have abandoned black victims in favor of black criminals. All the talk of “equity” and “social justice” and “investment” is cheap and worthless. Those “actions” are only resulting in more crime and even more victims. No matter what you hear, Chicago violent crimes are at their highest point since 2019.

Last weekend, June 14-16, 71 people were shot and 9 killed. Eight of those murdered were black. One was Latino. And nine of every 10 people shot were minorities. Most of the shootings and murders were in the South and West Side neighborhoods. That means most of crimes will get totally ignored.

It also means nothing will change – not under the current city and state leadership. 

The CPD will be handcuffed by the same rules that prevent real policing. Lawbreakers will still demonstrate the same disrespect for law and order. And criminals will still be protected as if they were the actual victims. 

Here’s the list of homicides from Friday night to early Monday morning – ages 13 to 49 – that we extracted directly from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s website:

And here’s a detailed breakdown of the trauma that many Chicagoans faced last weekend. We’ve taken liberally from ABC 7, which deserves all the crime reporting credit:

• At least 71 people were shot, nine of them killed, across the city from Friday evening to Monday morning.
• At least two-dozen people were shot during a five-hour period from midnight to 5 a.m. Monday.
• Five were shot in West Humboldt Park after a large crowd had gathered at a gas station.
• An hour later, at least seven people were shot in a barrage of gunfire near 62nd and Winchester in West Englewood.
• Three people were shot, one fatally, on the South Side early Sunday. The shooting happened in Bronzeville just before 12:30 a.m. A 35-year-old man, shot in his head. Pronounced dead. Another man, 38, shot in his chest, was in critical condition. A 26-year-old woman, shot in her buttocks, was in good condition. No one in custody.
• Hours later, two people were killed in the Little Village neighborhood. A 26-year-old man was found unresponsive inside a vehicle with a gunshot wound to his temple. There was another victim, identified only as male. Both were pronounced dead.
• Two separate fatal shootings happened in the same block Sunday on the Far South Side hours apart. One man between the ages of 35 and 40 was shot and killed early Sunday in West Pullman. He was pronounced dead at the scene. About 13 hours later, two men were shot, one fatally, in West Pullman. The first, 34, was struck multiple times and pronounced dead. The second, 59, also suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was in serious condition. No arrests have been reported in either shooting. 
• Around 9:43 p.m. on Sunday, a woman, 34, was shot in the face while sitting in a car on East 31st Street. She was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
• On Saturday night, a rideshare driver was shot and carjacked in South Austin. Someone entered his vehicle through the rear door and shot him in the leg. The victim was transported to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he is listed in good condition. There is no one in custody.
• A string of shootings happened within a span of five hours Friday night into Saturday morning, all on the city’s West Side.
• A 13-year-old boy was shot in the head and killed Friday while standing on the sidewalk at 8:30 p.m. in the Lawndale community.
• Less than two hours later in West Garfield Park, a 34-year-old man was driving when he was struck by gunfire. The man was rushed to Mt. Sinai Hospital in serious condition.
• About 20 minutes later, a 49-year-old woman, a 33-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man were struck by gunfire while in a backyard in South Austin. The 33-year-old woman is in critical condition.
• Four more people are recovering after similar shootings early Saturday on the West Side. One is listed in serious condition while three others are in good condition.
• Two men were shot Saturday in the Englewood neighborhood. They were reported in good condition.
• A man was killed and a woman wounded in a shooting Saturday in Belmont Cragin on the Northwest Side. The pair were in a car when someone in another car fired shots after pulling alongside them.

We looked into the Mayor’s “Violence Reduction Dashboard” to see who the victims were: 94% of Chicago’s fatal and non-fatal shooting victims (those reported so far) were either black or Hispanic. 

There are a host of things Illinois and Chicago lawmakers can do to bring down crime. But change begins with this simple rule: Criminals are criminals, not victims.

Until that changes, things will stay the same. And that’s bad news for Chicago’s real victims.

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