CHICAGO BLACK 4th of July Weekend Violence Leaves 3 children among at least 64 shot - add Thursday's shootings and the total is= 86 Shot & Wounded - 7 Murdered
Thursday till July 4th 2016 - 86 Shot & Wounded - 7 Murdered
Four people were shot to death and 60 others were wounded in Chicago as the Fourth of July weekend came to a bloody end, with half of the victims shot in the final 15 hours.
The injured included a 5-year-old girl and her 7-year-old cousin, each shot in the leg while playing with sparklers in West Englewood. An 11-year-old boy was hit in the arm by what relatives first thought were fireworks on the Near West Side, and a 15-year-old boy was shot in the chest as he was leaving a store in Gresham on the South Side.
Nearly all the shootings were on the West and South sides, in neighborhoods with troubling rates of gun violence that also bore the brunt of shootings during the Memorial Day weekend.
Last week, Chicago's top cop announced that thousands more law enforcement officers would hit the streets over this holiday weekend, saying he and those communities were "sick and tired" of the violence.
Monday evening, with the toll at just 36 so far, Johnson praised the department's efforts. "We're making progress, it's not success yet," he told reporters. "But this goes a long way, I think, to let everybody know we are focusing on the right individuals."
About 28 more people were shot in the city in the hours after Johnson spoke, most of them in areas where patrols had been stepped up: Austin, Garfield Park, Englewood, Lawndale, Grand Crossing, South Chicago, Gresham.
No shooting was recorded north of Armitage Avenue in the city.
The weekend toll was only slightly lower than last Fourth of July, when at least 10 people were killed and 55 others were wounded, according to Tribune data. Most of that time was quiet, but during an eight-hour spasm of violence, 30 people were shot, three of them fatally, including a 7-year-old boy.
In 2014, 16 were killed and 66 injured over the July Fourth weekend.
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