A toddler and a 10-year-old girl were among 14 people shot to death in Chicago in yet another weekend of gun violence. Between Friday and Sunday morning, a total of 52 people were shot in Chicago, according to police department records.
, according to police department records.
The string of violent weekends also follows the deadliest day for shootings in Chicago in decades. On May 31, theOn Saturday, a 22-year-old woman was driving with her 20-month-old son in the neighborhood of Englewood on Chicago's South Side when just after 2 p.m. a car pulled up beside them and an occupant opened fire, according to a police incident report. The mother was grazed in the head by a bullet while her son was shot in the chest and later died at a hospital, police said.
About two hours later, at 11:18 p.m., an 8-year-old girl who was sitting on a couch inside a residence in Englewood was injured when a stray bullet came through her window and gazed her head, police said. The girl was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where she was in fair condition on Sunday, according to police. No arrests have been made in the shooting.
Police work at the scene where a person was fatally shot, June 21, 2020, in the 6200 block of North Troy Street in the West Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago.The shootings this weekend came on the heels of a letter President Donald Trump sent to Lightfoot and Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker on Friday criticizing their leadership on the issue of gun violence in Chicago and offering to help.
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