CPD: 109 shot, 19 fatally, in shootings over Fourth of July weekend in Chicago
CHICAGO — Chicago police have confirmed 109 people were shot, 19 fatally, across the city over the Fourth of July weekend.
The shootings occurred over the extended holiday between midnight July 3 and midnight Sunday.
Chicago police Supt. Larry Snelling and Mayor Brandon Johnson addressed the holiday weekend violence Monday morning, which has surpassed last year’s numbers.
The superintendent and mayor called the situation unacceptable and reiterated this cannot be just a police problem.
“These are 19 families whose lives are forever altered. Nineteen families who woke up this morning without a son, without a daughter, without a mother, without a father, without an aunt, without an uncle. Over 100 people whose lives will never be the same,” Mayor Johnson said.
The most recent shooting incident was a homicide around 11:30 p.m. Sunday in the Austin neighborhood.
Police responded to a well-being check in the 200 block of North Central Avenue and discovered a 36-year-old man on the kitchen floor. He was bleeding and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head, and was pronounced dead on the scene.
Just before 5:30 a.m. Sunday, three men were shot and wounded outside the University of Chicago Hospital in the 5700 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue.
According to police, witnesses observed someone in a dark-gray SUV point a gun from the vehicle and fire shots at several people standing near a parked car in what initially looks to be a targeted shooting. The victims were transported to the hospital.
Weekend shootings with multiple victims included an incident at Columbus Park in the 500 block of South Central Avenue in the Austin neighborhood. Police said two people exchanged gunfire and fled the scene. A total of seven people were shot.
A 40-year-old man died after driving himself to Stroger Hospital following the shooting.
The youngest shooting victim over the extended Fourth of July weekend was 8-year-old Bryson Orr, who was killed along with two female relatives in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.
Police said several people fired into a home in the 7100 block of South Woodlawn around 6 a.m. on July 4. Two other boys were also wounded in the shooting.
“We cannot bring back these children. If we want to avoid having these types of press conferences and these types of meetings again, we need every single person to step up. We need people to start coming forward. We need people to take responsibility. Help us, help you,” CPD Supt. Snelling said.
Additional officers were deployed over the extended holiday weekend across Chicago.
The police department announced the opening of an Emergency Services Assistance Center Tuesday at Fosco Park, to will help people who have been traumatized by the weekend’s violence.
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