On Monday, the staggering news broke that Chicago has now passed 1,000 gunshot victims in the first four months of 2017. The city made this mark after two people were killed and five people were wounded on April 24.
This is the second time that Chicago has reached this tragic milestone. In 2016, it made 1,000 victims a few days earlier on April 20 which became known as the worst gun violence in the city in over two decades, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The Tribune also reports that on Tuesday, April 25, the windy city reached 1,008 gunshot victims and 182 homicides so far.
The numbers shot through the roof this past weekend as ten reported shootings occurred on Sunday over the span of seven hours. The bloody weekend resulted in the deaths of seven people and 31 wounded.
The data gathered from the Tribune revealed that from Monday until early Tuesday morning, three people were shot to death and thirteen were wounded, including five double shootings on Chicago’s South Side.
Some of the vicious shootings that occurred this week include the double shooting of a 17 and a 19-year old male in the South Side neighborhood of Englewood. The 17-year old boy is in stable condition while the 19-year old male is deceased.
A 31-year-old was shot in the head and murdered while driving in an SUV on the West Side that week. He crashed into two cars injuring another 31-year-old man.
Within those bloody days, a 55-year old man was also brutally murdered on 6900 block of South Dorchester Avenue in the Grand Crossing neighborhood. He was shot in the face and chest and tragically passed away at Northwestern Memorial Hospital according to Chicago police.
The man was discovered when Chicago police responded to a call of unresponsive man. Tragically, he was found dead on a stairwell.
We gotta do better family and prove Black Lives Matter to us too. R.I.P. to all.
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