By Breitbart News Network | Created at 2024-09-30 15:40:40 | Updated at 2024-09-30 19:21:46
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At least 28 people were shot, two of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.
CBS News reported the weekend’s first fatal shooting was discovered shortly after 9:30 a.m. Saturday “in the 9500 block of South Avenue N.,” where police discovered a woman with numerous gunshot wounds.
The woman succumbed to her injuries.
The weekend’s second fatal shooting occurred about 2 a.m. Sunday “in the 1500 block of N. Magnolia Avenue,” when the driver of a car exited his vehicle after an accident. The driver got out of his car and the driver of the other vehicle opened fire, fatally wounding him.
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ABC 7 noted that there were nearly 1,200 shootings in Chicago January 1, 2024, into July 7, 2024.
The Chicago Sun-Times pointed out some 423 people have been killed in Chicago thus far this year.
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