Memorial Day weekend got off to a bloody start in Chicago as eight people were killed and at least 33 others were wounded in separate shootings from Friday evening into early Saturday.
The violence also came close to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s doorstep as a person was found dead in an apparent homicide less than two blocks from the first-term mayor’s West Side home.
Extra police officers were scheduled to work over weekend, as Mayor Brandon Johnson and Interim CPD Supt. Fred Waller continued the controversial practice of canceling officers’ days off to boost staffing over violent weekends. About 2:15 a.m. in Lake View, a 35-year-old man was found on a sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the chest in the 500 block of West Surf Street. He died at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
A man was shot to death Saturday morning in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side. It happened about 11:15 a.m. in the 1100 block of North Ridgeway Avenue, according to police.The homicide near the mayor’s Austin neighborhood home was discovered just after midnight in the 5700 block of West Chicago Avenue. A female whose age was unknown was pronounced dead at the scene. Police called it a homicide investigation, but didn’t release additional details.
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