Fifty-nine people got shot across the city of Chicago this past weekend — seven fatally, according to police officials.
That’s more than the Dayton and El Paso shootings, respectively.
“It’s got to stop,” said Keith Flowers, father of Chicago victim Demetrius Flowers, who was murdered following a dispute over a basketball game.
“This senseless killing has got to stop,” he told WLS.
Of the multiple shootings reported in the Windy City over the weekend, two were said to have been mass casualty incidents in the same police district.
They included a drive-by in Douglas Park that left seven people injured and another in the 1800-block of South Kildare Avenue, in which one person died and eight others were wounded.
At least 30 others were shot and wounded between 5 p.m. Friday and 11:59 p.m. Sunday, according to police. A 5-year-old boy was among the victims.
Local officials likened the “senseless gun violence” to what happened in Texas and Ohio, where dozens of people were wounded and more than 30 killed in separate shootings on Saturday and Sunday.
“Our sincere condolences to those who suffered from the senseless gun violence that gripped the nation over this past weekend,” Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said at a press conference Monday.
“From El Paso…to Dayton…and once again, here on the West side of Chicago,” he told reporters. “I couldn’t help to ask myself, ‘What more will it take before we finally get a handle on the gun violence — not in Chicago, but across this country.”
Nine people were killed and another 27 wounded in the Dayton shooting. Twenty-two died in El Paso and at least 24 were injured.
Gun violence in Chicago reportedly left eight people dead last weekend and 40 others hurt.
“Too many people are being shot and killed in communities all across America,” Johnson said. “We certainly have the power, the ability and the resources. But again, I sometimes have to question as a nation if we have the will to do it.”
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