Johnson, who called on the feds to help, said those who did the shootings made "a choice to kill women, a choice to kill children, a choice to kill the elderly. And I’m here to say emphatically that we have had enough.
The number of shootings – which totaled 109 victims between Thursday and Sunday – surpassed last year’s holiday weekend total, Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling and Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a Monday press conference.
Gun violence is down across America this year but it peaks every summer and Chicago’s Fourth of July weekend bore the data out, with 109 people shot, including 19 fatally, police said in a Monday news conference.
Shootings and other violence during the extended Fourth of July weekend have left at least 42 people dead, including 19 in Chicago, and injured dozens more nationwide, authorities said.