At least 33 individuals were shot in Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago over Easter Weekend, with 21 of the shootings occurring between 8 PM Saturday and 6 AM Sunday. So far, seven of the victims have died.
The first casualty of the weekend occurred on Friday, with a 29-year-old man losing his life in the 800 block of 87th Street during a drive-by shooting. The next fatality happened on Saturday after a 41-year-old man sitting in his home in the 8200 block of South Elizabeth Street was shot, later dying in hospital. Just hours later, another man was shot nine times while pumping gas.
On Easter Sunday, five female victims were shot in the neighborhood of South Austin at around 1:00 AM, when “an unknown assailant fired multiple shots toward them and fled the scene,” AP reported. The victims ranged in age from six years old to twenty years old. One of the victims, 19, was killed instantly.
Another four people were shot on Sunday in the same neighborhood, and earlier that day, three people were shot while in a vehicle in the city’s South Side.
A total of 104 people have been shot and killed in Chicago this year, according to The Chicago Sun-Times.
In addition to its longstanding problems with gun violence, the Democratic-controlled city has been struggling to cope with a massive influx of illegal aliens.