Two people opened fire at a meeting in Chicago on Friday, killing one person and wounding seven others in the second similar attack on the city’s South Side in the past two weeks.
The shooting at an “instant party” in the Ashburn neighborhood killed a 26-year-old man who was shot in the head and sent the others to the hospital, police said. The conditions of the victims ranged from just to criticism.
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The latest shooting followed a March 14 attack at another pop-up party in the Park Manor neighborhood, a few miles to the east, where two people were killed and at least a dozen others were injured.
Fatal shootings appear to be increasing even after a year in Chicago that increased dramatically, from 495 in 2019 to 769 in 2020. The city is at a pace to record even more this year: as of Wednesday, 123 homicides had occurred in the city. city since January 1, compared to 94 in the same period last year, according to the police.
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There were also more policemen shot. On Thursday, an alleged thief in a Home Depot on the South Side shot a security guard and a police officer before being killed in a police shootout shortly afterwards.
The officer, who was shot in the shoulder and is expected to recover, is the fourth member of the department to be shot in the past two weeks and the 21st to be shot this year, compared with nine who were shot in the same period in 2020.
Last year was one of the most dangerous for city policemen in memory, with 79 sniper targets, compared with 22 the previous year.
Police have struggled to explain the rise in armed violence, but police superintendent David Brown, while speaking on Thursday about the police officer who was shot at the Home Depot, suggested that a general lack of respect for the police is part of the problem.
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“Men and women in law enforcement across the country are under attack,” said Brown, who mentioned Eric Talley, the police officer killed in Monday’s mass shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.
“But here in Chicago … it looks like these criminals are acting with impunity not just in the way they shoot each other, but basically a loss of respect for law enforcement,” said Brown.