A one-year-old boy and a ten-year-old girl were among the 14 people shot to death in Chicago over the weekend, 38 more were injured.
The candid 20-month-old Gaston died and his 22-year-old mother was injured when a gunman who shot the boy in the seat of his car and shot him in the head in the neighbor of Englewood on the side. South Chicago around 2 pm Saturday. No arrests have been made.
Hours later, Lena Núñez, 10, lost her life after a stray bullet entered her uncle’s home in Logan Square, northeast Chicago, and hit her in the head at 9.40 p.m. M. From Saturday.
Miss Núñez was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. No arrests have been made, reports Abc News.
Ten-year-old Lena Nunez lost her life after a stray bullet entered her uncle’s home in Logan Square, northeast Chicago, and hit her in the head at 9.40 p.m. M. From Saturday.
Later that night, another eight-year-old girl was injured by a stray bullet that shot through the window and grazed her head while sitting on a sofa at her home in the Englewood neighborhood. She was taken to the hospital and is stable, according to police. No arrests have been made.
Chicago Police Chief of Operations Fred Waller told CBS 2 Chicago: “ It seems like it was yesterday, actually it was last Saturday, I was in front of you talking about a 3-year-old boy who was killed in the community. from Austin, and now Here at Englewood, a 20-month-old boy was killed.
‘This is happening too often. Children are often killed by senseless violence, and not only children but also adults. When is this going to stop? When are we going to say enough is enough?
An unidentified 38-year-old man died Sunday in a shooting in Little Village, southwest of Chicago.
Miss Núñez’s uncle’s house, where he died after being shot in the head by a stray bullet on Saturday
An 18-year-old boy also died after being shot in South Chicago on Sunday morning.
A 19-year-old man was killed with a single shot to the back of the head Sunday morning in the Rogers Park neighborhood of north Chicago.
A 21-year-old man was shot while jogging in Gresham, south of Chicago, and taken to the hospital for treatment.
A 31-year-old woman was seriously injured Sunday after being shot in Rogers Park, south of Chicago, police reports said.
The sincere 20-month-old Gastón died and his 22-year-old mother was injured when a driver who shot the child was shot in the seat of his car and touched his head on the head (in the car photo of the family)
The incident took place in the neighboring Englewood, on the south side of Chicago, around 2 p.m. Saturday. No arrests have been made
People mourn the death of Sincero Gastón, 20 months old, after he was killed on Saturday.
A total of 52 people were injured by gun violence over the weekend, with 14 deaths reported by police.
The shocking total comes just a week after more than 100 people were shot and 14 people died from gun violence on Father’s Day weekend in the city.
The one-year-old boy’s death on Saturday comes just a week after a similar scene saw the death of three-year-old Mekhi James, who died after being shot in his 27-year-old stepfather’s car in Austin, East from Chicago. .
Mekhi’s aunt Christal Allen told Chicago ABC WLS station: “ Wherever you go, there is violence everywhere. You can’t run away from that ‘
Mekhi James, 3, who died last Saturday after being shot in his 27-year-old stepfather’s car in Austin, east Chicago.
Police monitor an SUV in which three-year-old Mekhi James was fatally shot while riding in the vehicle with his father outside the West Suburban Medical Center on Saturday, June 20, 2020, in Oak Park, Chicago.
The boy’s mother, Myesha James, said: “We want justice, but that will not bring him back.”
On Friday, President Donald Trump wrote a letter to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoo.t and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker raising the issue of gun violence in Chicago.
He wrote: “Although I have been encouraged to see reductions in crime nationwide in recent years, I have been horrified by the continued violence in this great American city,” Trump wrote.
‘His lack of leadership on this important issue continues to fail the people he has sworn to protect. I am concerned that it is another example of their lack of commitment to vulnerable citizens who are victims of this violence and the lack of respect for men and women in law enforcement.
Ms Lightfoot replied on Twitter: “I don’t need leadership lessons from Donald Trump,” accusing Trump of ‘use the victims of armed violence in our city to earn cheap political points, cast racist rhetoric and ignore the impact of COVID in this country … It is despicable, unpleasant and too typical.’
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