A double shooting caught on video Saturday night that left one person dead near the site of the Puerto Rican Day parade began with a “very minor” traffic crash before escalating into violence, a top Chicago police official said Monday.
Gyovanny Arzuaga, 24, who was killed in the shooting in the Humboldt Park community, and a 25-year-old woman who was badly wounded were among 14 people shot within blocks of parade festivities over the weekend. Of those 14, three others also were killed.
Viral video of the shooting that circulated online showed the woman being dragged by several people out of a dark SUV with a Puerto Rican flag sticking out of a window. Arzuaga who was seen on the ground nearly covering her was then shot by a gunman in a white tank top, the video showed.
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During a news conference Monday at Chicago Police Department headquarters, Brendan Deenihan, chief of detectives, described the video and said the killing stemmed from a “very minor” traffic crash. After that incident, Deenihan said, a group of people approached the vehicle.
“They are seen hitting and beating the woman, who was the driver of the vehicle and then eventually dragging her out,” Deenihan said. “What the video doesn’t show is there was a shot discharged at some point. You can’t see it in the video. And that appears when the female gets struck (by gunfire).”
That was when Arzuaga tried to get on top of her, “and then you see (a) suspect clearly just holding the gun, shooting him in the head almost execution-style,” Deenihan said, describing the graphic images.
He said police are trying to find all the suspects captured on the video.
At a separate news conference Monday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city has “promising leads” and hopes the individual is arrested soon.
“But as you saw from that horrific video, it wasn’t just one person. There’s one person who dealt the fatal shot but there were others who were standing by, who dragged that poor woman out of the car, the man who was killed literally used his body as a shield and he paid for that with his life,” Lightfoot said.
“The fact that happened in our city and so many individuals stood around and seemingly were trying to take advantage of this moment that I believe started with a car accident is a horrific statement, it’s a horrific statement about those men who were involved in that,” Lightfoot said.
If you get involved in a car accident the first thing you should d is to call the police and right after your car accident attorney to receive instructions from them on how to proceed.
Arzuaga was among seven people fatally shot in Chicago from 6 p.m. Friday to late Sunday night. Those killed were among more than 50 shooting victims during that period of Father’s Day weekend. Not included in the tally was a woman who was fatally stabbed in the downtown area not far from Willis Tower over the weekend.
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This is what a Liberal Run City looks like.
AND when you see TIME AND TIME AGAIN< black thugs who DO this nonsense, GET AWAY WITH IT, cause racism rules the DA's office to where blacks don't get charged, DO NOT HOLD your breath, to see justice being done here.
nothing but pure dam evil and they say blacks don’t do crime well that’s an out right lie.
all of those around that car should be executed in public!
And those executions should be SWIFT and as graphic as possible.
And Mayor Lightfoot is horrific as well.
“The fact that happened in our city and so many individuals stood around and seemingly were trying to take advantage of this moment that I believe started with a car accident is a horrific statement, it’s a horrific statement about those men who were involved in that,” Lightfoot said.
You reckon they were Democrat voters? Maybe they’re all about defunding the police. Since killing in Chicago has become so commonplace, perhaps everyone there has become numbed to exactly what the horror is. Got any real solutions, Lori? Whatever you do, don’t speak with any White reporters.
Did you see that video, supposedly of a # of black teen girls, who TWERKED ON THE SIDE and hood of an ambulance, that came to another of those shootings in chicago??
TOTALLY DIISGUSTING….
>”Lightfoot Calls Videotaped Murder ‘Horrific’<"
It's white people's fault.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot, you Democrat Mayors never prosecute criminals and what do you get? You get a sewer called Chicago. Lori, how do you like the smell of the sewer you provide over?
SINCE SHE has her armed guards ,SHE LOVES IT..
It
Lori don’t live in da hood so she don’t give a damned. She doesn’t prosecute Democrat voters or people of color.
Mayor’s Quote: “The fact that happened in our city and so many individuals stood around and seemingly were trying to take advantage of this moment that I believe started with a car accident is a horrific statement, it’s a horrific statement about those men who were involved in that,” Lightfoot said.
DUH, it happens every weekend and weekday in Chicago. The mayor doesn’t care!
Neither do the DA’s or state AG…
Well hey–the BLM’ers are starting to diversify and branch out. Normally they target other blacks and whites, and more recently Asians. (Which for some reason Biden attributes to white conservatives.) I guess mayorette Beetlejuice is puzzled at the obvious.
Well, at least they are being EQUAL opportunity murders, killing EVERY Race, not just fellow blacks.. Cause that would be racist! 😉
A clear example of why the death penalty should be certain and swiftly carried out.
AND be televized, OR HELD in the public square!
Pay Per View, with the proceeds going to law enforcement.
Has the crime rate of Blacks hit 80% of all crimes yet? I am sure it is close.
Believe it was 56% of solved crimes in most recent stats. Blacks should be kneeling in SHAME, not pretending to be victims of white racism when they are killing each other at a rate of 5000 or more per year!
Think how high the percentage would be if these black related crimes were all prosecuted.
BUT then the left would just whine MORE about how blacks make up most of those in prisons…
Portland is giving Chicago a run for its money, as the WORST crime ridden city in the USA..
My deepest condolences to the victim’s family. That man was brave and acting like a real man protecting a woman.
Hey, Lightfoot, if the shooter had been a white person would you have claimed it was a racist attack? Would you have blamed the situation on systematic racism? Would you have claimed that every white person was racist and this is why this shooting happened? I think we know the answer.
What is the excuse going to be now when it is a person of color against another person of color?
“Whitey made them do it” is how POC excuse their own sins. Just as all roads lead to Rome, all torturous paths in leftist brains (including white Dems) lead to blaming whites.
So “mayor” lightbrain is horrified by another shooting in her ill run city? BFD, she is upset because this one was caught on film for the whole world to see! Instead of being horrified, just what, EXACTLY is she going to do about this shooting, and the hundreds of ONGOING shootings in her city??? Answer” NOTHING more than telling the press she was upset! Absolutely NOTHING!!!
This is yet another good look at liberals at their best!
Days like today, i’d love to seal that city up, AND LET IN THE Dredd Judges!
This is sickening. Once again you see the tribal nature of the black culture. The drum beat goes out in seconds, action (never good) takes place and it continues because scum bags like Lightfoot and other liberals allow and encourage this behavior. Lightfoot and all other commucrat mayors and governors allowing their cities to be turned into garbage pits are complicit in anarchy and should be arrested–NOW. WHERE IS THE PUSH BACK REPUBS????
Their silence is deafening!
Nothing will happen as the shooter appears to be black so it was just an act of self defense cause the people in the car were very aggressive in their words and probably used the n word thus justifying the shoot. If in doubt, as lightfoot.
I blame all heinous crimes like this, done so repeatedly by criminals of all races, on the city’s elected officials. They are not responsible for occasional crimes, but Chicago and other Democrat-led cities are being maltreated by lack of policing and a poor educational system that does not require discipline and a code of ethics.