More than 100 people were injured in shootings during the four-day Fourth of July weekend in Chicago, and almost half of those shootings occurred within a 12-hour period on Tuesday.
Fifteen of the at least 101 who who were shot had died from their wounds as of Wednesday morning, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The youngest person shot was a 13-year-old boy who was seriously wounded in Gage Park Friday night, and the oldest was a 60-year-old man in Lawndale.
Until early Tuesday afternoon, the weekend had been fairly calm as police Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced 58 arrests on gun and drug charges that he said would “keep residents and visitors safe in every neighborhood,” the Tribune reported.
Between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, however, violence was reported across South Chicago police districts, with 42 people shot during those hours. The vast majority of the shootings occurred on the South and West sides over the weekend, the Tribune reported.
The last time there was a 4-day weekend over the Fourth of July was 2013, when 74 people were shot in Chicago.
There were more than 4,000 shooting incidents and 762 murders in Chicago last year, mostly related to gangs and drug wars in black and Latino neighborhoods on the West and South Sides, USA Today reported.
On Friday, the Trump administration announced it would send 20 more ATF agents to the city and that the Justice Department would work with the city to form a joint strike force to prosecute gun-related crimes.
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