{"id":1939531,"date":"2023-05-27T15:55:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T19:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gunfire-forces-popular-chicago-beach-to-close-hours-after-opening-for-holiday-weekend\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T19:55:23","slug":"gunfire-forces-popular-chicago-beach-to-close-hours-after-opening-for-holiday-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gunfire-forces-popular-chicago-beach-to-close-hours-after-opening-for-holiday-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunfire Forces Popular Chicago Beach To Close Hours After Opening For Holiday Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fgunfire-forces-popular-chicago-beach-to-close-hours-after-opening-for-holiday-weekend%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=1939531&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><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A fight and a gunshot forced one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chicago-welcomes-new-leftist-mayor-with-vision-of-a-safer-and-more-equitable-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a>\u2019s most popular summer spots to close just hours after opening for Memorial Day weekend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Up to 100 teenagers gathered at the North Avenue beach around 1:30 p.m. on Friday when a fight broke out and someone fired a gun, according to police, Fox 32 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/police-activity-north-avenue-beach-chicago-memorial-day-weekend\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Video of the incident showed the group of teens taunting each other before a single gunshot is heard and the crowd disperses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No one was injured by the gunfire, and police took a 15-year-old boy and one other person into custody. Chicago\u2019s beaches, which stretch along Lake Michigan, officially opened at 11 a.m. Friday for the summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today, on the first day beaches were opened for the season in Chicago, a shooting takes place at the popular North Avenue Beach as about 80 to 100 teenagers gathered. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tEJeSW0kNj\">pic.twitter.com\/tEJeSW0kNj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMarieOakes\/status\/1662218100627079169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe person who fired the weapon was observed,\u201d Interim Chicago Police Department Supt. Fred Waller <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/north-avenue-beach-shot-fired\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cHe was taken into custody after a very, very short foot pursuit. Another subject in the same area was also observed running away with a weapon and he was taken into custody. Two weapons were recovered from him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Claire Nelson, who was at the beach with a group of friends from DePaul University, was only 200 feet away from the group of teenagers at the time of the fight and subsequent gunfire, CBS News <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/north-avenue-beach-shot-fired\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe were really close, actually. We were having fun, and then all of a sudden these people started fighting, and the police came out, and then we heard a gunshot, and we just ran away to safety,\u201d Nelson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1685202016677000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3BHv9qMQC3OwHMBCkGZXpF\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The beach <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/chicago-beaches-north-avenue-beach-closed-shots-fired\/13304202\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reopened<\/a> a few hours after the incident, and the 15-year-old was charged with two felonies: one count of aggravated assault discharge of a firearm and one count of criminal damage to property worth $500 to $10,000.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city, led by its new leftist mayor Brandon Johnson, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/midwest\/chicago-peacekeeping-force-holiday-weekend\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">prepared<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for another weekend of potential violence by increasing police presence across the city and deploying 30 \u201cpeacekeepers\u201d trained in de-escalation and conflict intervention. The Chicago PD also said it would be conducting bag checks of large gatherings at beaches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year in Chicago, nine people were killed and 40 were injured in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/violent-weekend-starts-off-summer-in-chicago-with-at-least-five-dead\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">shootings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> across the city over Memorial Day weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s going to take all of us not just the police, city government to ensure our communities can live and thrive in peace and safety,\u201d Johnson said while discussing the city\u2019s safety plan for the holiday weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fight and a gunshot forced one of Chicago\u2019s most popular summer spots to close just hours after opening for Memorial Day weekend.\u00a0 Up to 100 teenagers gathered at the North Avenue beach around 1:30 p.m. on Friday when a fight broke out and someone fired a gun, according to police, Fox 32 reported. 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