There Were 22 Shootings in Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago Over Christmas Weekend As She Focused on Her Kwanzaa Message
There were 22 shootings in Chicago over Christmas weekend, including two that were fatal.
Murders in the city went up five percent in 2021.
One of the shootings was of an 11-year-old boy who was shot in the leg inside an apartment in Jefferson Park on Christmas Eve.
“Chicago already has more than 800 homicide deaths in 2021, the most violent year in a quarter century, according to autopsy records from the Cook County medical examiner’s office,” local station WBEZ reported on December 16.
The report noted, “the homicides, most carried out with guns, began to surge in the spring of 2020 after the pandemic’s arrival. The violence intensified after George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police.
