{"id":1993089,"date":"2023-08-07T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/8-year-old-killed-in-chicago-dozens-shot-in-weekend-violence\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T12:48:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:48:30","slug":"8-year-old-killed-in-chicago-dozens-shot-in-weekend-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/8-year-old-killed-in-chicago-dozens-shot-in-weekend-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Child slain, many wounded in Chicago weekend violence."},"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\">16<\/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%2F8-year-old-killed-in-chicago-dozens-shot-in-weekend-violence%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=1993089&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--><h2>A Tragic Incident in\u2062 Chicago<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boston-marathon-bomber-files-lawsuit-over-alleged-unlawful-treatment-in-colorado-prison\/\" title=\"Boston Marathon bomber files lawsuit over alleged \u2018unlawful\u2019 treatment in Colorado prison\">crime scene<\/a> in Chicago, 2021 \u200b(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Continued Struggle with Violence<\/h3>\n<p>An eight-year-old girl was shot\u200c and killed in Chicago on Saturday, \u2062in a weekend that \u200bsaw dozens of people shot\u200c as the Democrat-run city continues to struggle with\u2064 violence.<\/p>\n<h3>Tragic Loss\u200b of \u2062Innocence<\/h3>\n<p>Twenty-seven people were <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/chicago-shootings-violence-shooting-cpd\/13612407\/\">shot<\/a>, seven fatally, over\u2064 the weekend. One of the victims was Sarabi Medina, an eight-year-old \u200dgirl, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2023\/8\/6\/23821738\/girl-8-fatally-shot-in-portage-park-alleged-shooter-wounded-in-struggle-over-gun\">shot<\/a> by a neighbor who complained the child \u200dwas too \u200dloud.<\/p>\n<p>Medina was riding her\u200b scooter \u2064when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youre-not-fking-live-minnesota-protester-cusses-out-cnn-reporter-live-on-air\/\" title=\"\u2018You\u2019re Not F**king Live\u2019: Minnesota Protester Cusses Out CNN Reporter Live On Air\">man approached<\/a>\u2063 and shot her\u2063 in the head. The girl&#8217;s father tackled the assailant, who was shot \u200din the face during the struggle\u200c and is now in critical\u2062 condition.<\/p>\n<h3>Community Outrage<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Just little kids playing, he \u2062would come\u2064 out just yelling about the noise. It\u2062 just\u2062 didn\u2019t make sense, none \u200cof it made sense,&#8221;\u200d neighbor Megan Kelley told the \u2062 <em>Chicago Sun-Times<\/em>. &#8220;Everybody in the\u2064 community\u2063 would just\u2062 tell him they are just kids having \u200cfun playing,\u2064 just let them be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>A Tragic History<\/h3>\n<p>The girl&#8217;s mother died in a 2019 shooting.<\/p>\n<h3>Escalating Violence<\/h3>\n<p>Also this weekend, a 14-year-old Chicago male was in critical \u2064condition after receiving\u200d two gunshot\u2062 wounds to the head. Police had no one in custody as of Monday \u2063morning.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend \u2063shootings \u200care the latest\u2063 episode \u2064of violence \u2063in the city.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerning Crime Statistics<\/h3>\n<p>Crime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/crime-spikes-38-in-chicago-during-brandon-johnsons-first-month-in-office\">increased<\/a> by 38 percent \u200bin the month after new progressive \u200cmayor \u200dBrandon Johnson (D.) took office in May.\u2063 Robberies are up 17\u2064 percent compared with\u200d this time last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/home.chicagopolice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1_PDFsam_CompStat-Public-2023-Week-31.pdf\">according<\/a> to \u2063police data, and are up by 30 percent in the past\u2062 three years.<\/p>\n<h3>Controversial\u2063 Approach<\/h3>\n<p>Johnson&#8217;s campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/meet-the-defund-the-police-advocate-chicago-just-elected-to-deal-with-its-crime-spike\/\">called<\/a> for &#8220;health professionals, not police&#8221; to &#8220;respond\u2064 to crisis \u2063calls.&#8221; He was the only mayoral candidate \u200cwho did\u200d not back filling the city&#8217;s \u2063police vacancies, which number more\u2064 than 1,500 positions.<\/p>\n<h3>Past Failures<\/h3>\n<p>Former mayor Lori Lightfoot \u200bsaw the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oakland-police-chief-speaks-out-after-city-council-votes-to-defund-police-dept-by-18-4m\/\" title=\"Oakland Police chief speaks out after city council votes to defund police dept. by .4M\">homicide rate skyrocket<\/a> nearly 40 percent since taking office in 2019,\u2063 watchdog Wirepoints <a href=\"https:\/\/wirepoints.org\/lori-lightfoot-gets-the-boot-in-murder-capital-chicago-what-does-that-mean-for-mayors-of-other-homicide-hot-spots-wirepoints\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. She now <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/ousted-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-has-a-new-job\/\">works<\/a> as a teaching \u2062fellow \u2062at\u200d Harvard\u200d University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>girl who was shot while riding in a car. The incident highlights the ongoing violence crisis in Chicago, with the city witnessing a surge in shootings. Over the weekend, a total of 27 people were shot, resulting in seven deaths, including Sarabi Medina, a tragic victim of the escalating violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1993090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}