11 Killed, 60 Wounded In Weekend Shootings
By Chuck Sudo in News on Jul 7, 2014 4:30PM
An explosion of shootings across Chicago Sunday afternoon pushed the number of wounded and murdered over the Independence Day holiday to at least 60 wounded and 11 dead.
From 2:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon through early Monday morning, 29 people were shot; four of them were killed. The murders include a 24-year-old man early Monday morning at 84th Street and Buffalo Avenue on the South Side who suffered multiple gunshot wounds. A 44-year-old woman was killed in Morgan Park around 12:30 a.m. Monday. A 23-year-old man in West Pullman was killed around 9:05 p.m. Sunday.
Meanwhile, Chicago Police shot five people over the weekend and killed two teens. Authorities allege 16-year-old Warren Robinson was hiding under a car at the 8700 block of South Sangamon and pointed a gun at police as he attempted to crawl out. The teen allegedly raised his gun again, prompting police to shoot him again.
The other teen, 14-year-old Pedro Rios, was shot and killed by police in Portage Park Friday night. Fraternal Order of Police spokesman Pat Camden told the Sun-Times Rios pointed a gun at a police officer, who shot him. Police recovered a .44 Magnum revolver at the scene.
“These are individuals that are being confronted by uniformed police officers and decided they don’t want to drop the gun and give up,” Camden said. “They want to turn around and put the officer’s life in danger.”
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy will hold a news conference Monday to discuss the shootings. If McCarthy holds to form, expect him to say that the homicide rate is at its lowest in 50 years and the Police Department has things under control, even as the warm weather is bringing out more shooters in high-crime neighborhoods on the South and West sides.
West Englewood was particularly violent over the weekend, with one man killed and eight others injured during the holiday.