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Gun-Controlled Chicago: At Least 53 Shot, 4 Killed over Holiday Weekend

by AWR Hawkins At least 53 people were shot and wounded and four were killed during Memorial Day Weekend violence in gun-controlled Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reports that the violence brought the number of shooting victims to nearly 1,500 for January 1 through May 30, 2017. The violence brought the number of homicides to 242. Moreover, “at least 60 people were shot and killed” in May alone. According to the Tribune, one of the last homicides of the holiday weekend was “a 15-year-old girl killed as she rode in a vehicle on North Lake Shore Drive with two older men.” Chicago… View Article