{"id":1183023,"date":"2022-01-03T10:49:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T15:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1183023"},"modified":"2022-01-03T10:49:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T15:49:31","slug":"31-shot-during-new-years-weekend-in-mayor-lori-lightfoots-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/31-shot-during-new-years-weekend-in-mayor-lori-lightfoots-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"31 Shot During New Year&#039;s Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot&#039;s Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F31-shot-during-new-years-weekend-in-mayor-lori-lightfoots-chicago%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1183023&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Thirty-one people were shot, six of them fatally, during New Year\u2019s weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s (D) Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Chicago Sun-Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2022\/1\/2\/22863154\/weekend-roundup-shootings-homicides-chicago-new-years\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;the weekend\u2019s first fatal shooting was that of 18-year-old&nbsp;Anthony Watkins, who was shot at 11:15 p.m. New Year\u2019s Eve while walking \u201cin the&nbsp;5200 block of West Van Buren Street.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Watkins was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old man was discovered with a gunshot wound about 5:25 a.m. New Year\u2019s Day. He was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The third fatal shooting of weekend was discovered when a identified shooting victim was found with a gunshot wound to the head just before 9 a.m. New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>A man approximately 40 years of age was found fatally shot Sunday morning \u201cin the&nbsp;2400 block of South Trumbull Avenue.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Crime runs rampant in Lori Lightfoot&#8217;s Chicago. A woman has been charged for allegedly stealing an ambulance in Chicago and leading officers on a chase before crashing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UoLQdRdgQ8\">https:\/\/t.co\/UoLQdRdgQ8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1449740442329915394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The fifth shooting death of the weekend occurred Sunday night at 11:15 p.m., when a 20-year-old man was shot multiple times while \u201cstanding in the street in the&nbsp;5200 block of West Van Buren Street.\u201d The man was taken to a hospital where he died.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth shooting death of the weekend was 12-year-old&nbsp;Marcell Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Fox 32 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/12-year-old-boy-fatally-shot-sitting-on-bed-in-englewood-home\">reports<\/a> that Wilson was shot while sitting in a bedroom with a group of people around 11:25 p.m. when someone shot him in the chest. Wilson was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19338994\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237405487.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19338994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237405487-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Police armed with assault rifles patrol the entrance to the Nordstrom store in Oakbrook Mall on December 23, 2021 in Oak Brook, Illinois where at least 5 people were injured during a shootout. Two suspects are in custody with a possible third being sought by the police. (Jim Vondruska\/Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/02\/2021-deadliest-year-in-quarter-of-a-century-in-lori-lightfoots-chicago\/\">noted<\/a> that 2021 was the deadliest year for Chicago in a quarter of a century. The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/587891-chicagos-797-homicides-in-2021-highest-in-25-years\">pointed out<\/a> that the Chicago Police Department listed 797 homicides for the year in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>WBEZ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbez.org\/stories\/chicago-has-exceeded-800-homicides-in-2021\/f5518836-b3a2-490f-8cf3-ca503b6640ba\">reported<\/a> Chicago surpassed 800 homicides in mid-December.<\/p>\n<p><em>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News<\/em><em>&nbsp;and the writer\/curator of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down Range with AWR Hawkins<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em><em>a weekly newsletter focused o<\/em><em>n al<\/em><em>l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram:&nbsp;<\/em><em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/awr_hawkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@awr_hawkins<\/a>. Reach him at&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:awrhawkins@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">awrhawkins@breitbart.com<\/a>. You can sign up to get Down Range at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breitbart.com\/downrange<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-one people were shot, six of them fatally, during New Year\u2019s weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s (D) Chicago. 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