CHICAGO (AP) — Fourteen people, including five children, were killed as more than 100 people were shot in a wave of gunfire in Chicago over the Father’s Day weekend that produced the city’s highest number of shooting victims in a single weekend this year.
Among the victims was 3-year-old Mekhi James, who police said was fatally shot Saturday as the boy was in a car with his father in the south Austin neighborhood.
Police said the child’s 27-year-old father was the intended target when someone fired shots at the vehicle, but he is not cooperating with detectives. Community leaders are offering a $10,000 reward for any information in the boy’s killing.
After Mekhi’s fatal shooting, longtime community activist Andrew Holmes said he had spoken to one of the boy’s relatives, who said the child’s mother is “totally upset,” the Chicago Tribune reported.
“She loved her baby,” Holmes said, adding, “This baby had a family.”
The weekend’s other young shooting victims included a 13-year-old girl who died after being shot in the neck while watching TV in her home, and two boys, ages 17 and 16, killed in a separate shooting on Saturday.
Police Superintendent David Brown said police were working hard to track down those responsible for the violence in several Chicago communities. He said “gangs, guns and drugs” are the common thread in those shootings.
“Good men throughout this city should be celebrating with their families on a beautiful day, but instead, a number of Chicagoans will be spending Father’s Day grieving the loss of their children,” he said Sunday.
In all, 102 people were shot across Chicago from Friday evening to Monday morning — the highest number of shooting victims in a single weekend this year, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
The violence comes nearly a month after Chicago had its deadliest Memorial Day weekend since 2015 as nine people were killed and another 27 wounded in shootings.
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From the article above: “Police said the child’s 27-year-old father was the intended target when someone fired shots at the vehicle, but he is not cooperating with detectives”. Black lives do not matter. This “so called father’s”, three year old black son was murdered and he will not cooperate with the police. It is obvious that a three year old black child means nothing to the father and the three year old black child means nothing to black ***** matters. How is that for a dose of reality?????
“Good men throughout this city should be celebrating with their families on a beautiful day,”…..problem is that 80% of black fathers never married mom, refused to claim the kid, or just denied he was the father. Black lives only matter to adults who can protest and vote,,,,Black babies need not apply.
Nowhere in this article does it mention the race of people affected. How could you possible assume they are black? Must be racist!
Given name could be a clue……
Snouts. EVERY TIME they fail to mention race, its cause the victims AND perps were both black.. IF IT WAS A WHITE GUY who killed them, they ‘d DEFINITELY be mentioning HIS race.
Yea. ITS FUNNY how they keep whining “COPS ARE NOT doing enough to punish these killers’, YET KEEP REFUSING TO HELP the cops catch them!
It is actually sickening to me, that the father cares SO little about this 3 year old child, that he won’t cooperate with Police ! He is only worried about HIMSELF, and he figures they will try to kill him again. These are ALL BLACK people KILLING BLACK people ! Do you hear anything from BLM ? NO, of course not, because like Al Sharpton,, and Jesse Jackson ,it is only important if a WHITE POLICE OFFICER was at fault. NONE of them really care about reducing or eliminating the killing of Black people, it is all a PHONY ACT !
Only 14 people killed? Mayor Bigfoot Light will probably get reelected if good news like this keeps coming her way.
Well the news is that there were NO racist shootings……………………….
They were all shot by the same race.
Can’t understand why people keep voting for a tyrant like Lightfoot. Absolute insanity run amok.
Anyone of the party who pays mothers to encourage the fathers to abandon their children to get free lunches and welfare in exchange for a Democrat city vote is in no position to morally comment on anything regarding the value or meaning of the word “Father”, earthly father or heavenly. I’d say it’s t, the pot calling the kettle black but then I’d be accused of being racist.
OR FOR any democrat.. REALLY. Look at every city with these HIGH CRIME RATEs.
They have all been RAN BY COMMUCRATS for decades.. PERIOD.
Who cares?
Since they have not made any arrest yet my money says all the victims were black and so were the shooters.
No bet from me..
IF THE Killer was white, WE’d never hear the end of it.
Oh where oh where is Mrs. O’leary’s cow when she is really needed?
Maybe Black Lives Matter should be instructing their own race that Black Lives Matter………..they’re the biggest threat to themselves.
Saw on Tucker, one of the women living in that hood, SCREAMING just that fact.. Wonder how long it will be, before SHE’s silenced..
Waiting for the big demonstrations for the 5 children murdered to match the ones for the adult felon Floyd. Crickets.
And the goofy, lame mayor, isn’t giving any instructions to the citizens on how not to kill each other, but if it’s an Officer involved shooting, bring the house down… She’s no different than that last clown in the WH, Oblammie.
The weekend’s other young shooting victims included a 13-year-old girl who died after being shot in the neck while watching TV in her home
There will be no marches or protests for this young girl.
Some black Lives Matter, not all.
ANd what’s the bet, that one woman Fox showed, condemning these cowards in BLM for not protesting for the death of these folk, will wind up being called an Aunt Tom..
Dem city, Dem county, Dem state. The definition of insanity.