Less than an hour later, a woman was killed and three men wounded in a drive-by shooting in Auburn Gresham.Īn off-duty Michigan police officer shot himself and seriously wounded another man Saturday afternoon when a gun he was handling went off in a room at Hotel Chicago in River North.Ī fatal shooting in Woodlawn was reported late Saturday. The shooting happened about 11:15 a.m., according to police. Later in the day, a man was shot to death in the 1100-block of North Ridgeway Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he later died, police said. They were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where the man died and the woman was listed in critical condition.Ībout 20 minutes later, Johnathan Salgado, 22, was standing on the sidewalk in the 2400-block of South Homan Avenue in Little Village when he was shot in the chest, according to police. Just before 3 a.m., a 37-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man were standing on a sidewalk in the 2300-block of West 18th Street in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood when someone opened fire, striking them both in the face, according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner's office. He died at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. in Lake View, William Hair, 35, was found on a sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the chest in the 500 block of West Surf Street. Saturday, a man, 33, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the armpit in the 7800-block of South Seeley Avenue in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood.Ībout 2:15 a.m. A man, 36, was shot near the street around 7 p.m. And Monday evening, a shooting was reported about five blocks from the mayor's home. A female, whose age was unknown, was stabbed to death and left in a nearby alley. The homicide near the mayor's Austin neighborhood home was discovered just after midnight Saturday in the 5700-block of West Chicago Avenue. The weekend's first homicides happened within a few hours of each other. "We are in a state of emergency in this city and have been for many years and it is time for us to put the urgency on this public safety crisis just as we did with COVID, just as we currently are doing with the migrant crisis," Green said. Meanwhile, at City Hall, former mayoral candidate Ja'Mal Green spoke about the weekend violence, calling for more urgency in spending for economic development, housing, youth, and businesses to combat crime. if the community wasn't invited in to partner with the city and with police," said Tamar Manasseh of Mothers and Men Against Senseless Killings. "I get that the numbers were not what we hoped for, but I'd like to think it might have been a bit worse if there wasn't such a. It really does take communities working together," said 19th Police District Council Member Sam Schoenburg. We can't ask just one elected official to solve all the problems. "We can't ask police officers to do everything, to solve all the problems. We have much more work to do, but the work performed by these individuals this weekend is the foundation for how we will ultimately secure safety together. I offer my deep gratitude to all those involved. This holiday weekend, thousands of police officers, first responders, city workers, business leaders, organizers, faith leaders, and violence interrupters tirelessly dedicated themselves to keeping Chicago safe. That's why as mayor, I am committed to leveraging every single resource at our disposal to protect every single life in our city. It produced pain and trauma that devastated communities across Chicago, and my heart breaks for everyone affected. “At the exact same time, my dog Jade engaged him on his leg and he turned the gun from my head to Jade’s head, placed the barrel of the gun on top of Jade’s head and pulled the trigger.In a statement, Mayor Johnson added, "The violence our city experienced this weekend is intolerable. “We attempted to arrest the driver at which point he pulled a revolver out, a 357 Magnum revolver, and pointed it at my head,” Schellenberg recalled. Police said patrol members tried to stop a van from leaving the area but its driver took off – eventually causing $27,000 in damage to 12 parked civilian and police vehicles – before crashing into a retaining wall near Commercial Drive and East 2 nd Avenue. On July 16, 2022, Schellenberg and his K9 responded to a break-in at a building in the 300-block of Railway Street. “This was definitely something I’ve never seen before, I’ve never personally encountered. Jesse Schellenberg told Global News in an interview after Pryce’s sentencing. “There’s no doubt in my mind that if it wasn’t for Jade that day, I probably wouldn’t be here speaking to you today,” Const.
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