{"id":575358,"date":"2021-06-28T11:51:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=575358"},"modified":"2021-06-28T11:51:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:51:15","slug":"chicago-erupts-in-violence-at-least-5-dead-77-shot-in-weekend-incidents-including-two-mass-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-erupts-in-violence-at-least-5-dead-77-shot-in-weekend-incidents-including-two-mass-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Erupts In Violence: At Least 5 Dead, 77 Shot In Weekend Incidents Including Two Mass Shootings"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fchicago-erupts-in-violence-at-least-5-dead-77-shot-in-weekend-incidents-including-two-mass-shootings%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=575358&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1325068568.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>At least five people are dead after a shocking weekend of violence in Chicago, Illinois, that also saw two separate mass shootings that left at least a dozen people wounded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2021\/06\/28\/at-least-2-killed-27-wounded-in-weekend-shootings-in-chicago-06-25-21\/\">Chicago\u2019s CBS affiliate reported<\/a> Monday that at least 77 people were shot over the weekend in a number of incidents, including two multi-victim mass shootings that left 17 people wounded and 2 dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least seven of the surviving victims\u201d from this weekend\u2019s violence \u201cwere 17 or younger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLate Sunday night, the Fire Department said eight people were struck, one fatally, in a mass shooting at 63rd Street and Artesian Avenue in Chicago Lawn\u201d on the city\u2019s South Side, CBS Chicago reported. \u201cThe shooting happened at 10:53 p.m. in the 6300 block of South Artesian Avenue, police said. The Fire Department called an EMS Plan 2 for the shooting, sending 10 ambulances to the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso Sunday night, a mass shooting on 71st Street near Clyde Avenue in South Shore left a woman dead and five others wounded. Police said at 8:44 p.m., a woman and four men were all standing outside when a black sport-utility vehicle passed by and someone inside shot them all,\u201d the outlet continued. \u201cThe woman was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition and was later pronounced dead there after being shot six times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Police Department says no one is yet in custody in connection with either mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people shot over the weekend is increasing, Monday, as victims present themselves for treatment. Regardless, the incidents last weekend quickly outpaced the violence seen during the same weekend last year \u2014 at the beginning of the city\u2019s spike in violence. During the same weekend in 2020, 47 people were shot, but the shooters did more damage: 20 people died of their wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown unveiled a plan to curb summer violence late in May, focusing on 15 key beats across the city where gun violence, specifically, has spiked. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/bidens-plan-to-reduce-gun-violence-to-provide-funds-resources-to-chicago\/2539589\/\">Chicago\u2019s NBC affiliate reported<\/a> that \u201c[a]ccording to the Chicago Police Department, shootings in Chicago are up this year. There have been 1,402 shootings reported, a 15% increase over last year, and 1,715 people have been shot, an 18% increase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, however, Lightfoot admitted that the city could not handle the spike in violence on its own and appealed to the Biden White House for help.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden revealed, also last week, that the White House would be focusing on curbing the transport and sale of illegal guns and finding Chicago teens summer jobs to keep them off the street, according to NBC Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal government will deploy a group of so-called \u201cstrike forces\u201d to major cities, aiming to increase enforcement on [illicit] gun dealers, and to try to cut down on illegal gun trafficking,\u201d the outlet noted. \u201cMore funding for law enforcement was included in the proposal, along with enhanced technological cooperation between local police and the FBI. Biden also promised that community-based anti-violence programs would be part of the plan, and cited Chicago programs as examples of what he intends to promote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chicago\u2019s illicit gun trade, however, has been a problem for some time \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/national-international\/chicago-gun-trace-report-2017\/27140\/\">a study, conducted in 2017, revealed<\/a> that a significant percentage of guns used in crime inside the city of Chicago came from outside the state of Illinois, often from neighboring Indiana \u2014 but the number of shootings has increased exponentially through 2020 and 2021. Last year, alone, there were more than 3,200 shootings.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least five people are dead after a shocking weekend of violence in Chicago, Illinois, that also saw two separate mass shootings that left at least a dozen people wounded.Chicago\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281511,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1325068568.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Chicago Erupts In Violence: At Least 5 Dead, 77 Shot In Weekend Incidents Including Two Mass Shootings","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1325068568.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Chicago Erupts In Violence: At Least 5 Dead, 77 Shot In Weekend Incidents Including Two Mass Shootings","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575358","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}