{"id":584291,"date":"2021-07-06T17:06:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T21:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=584291"},"modified":"2021-07-06T17:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T21:06:04","slug":"jewish-student-killed-by-stray-gunfire-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jewish-student-killed-by-stray-gunfire-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Student Killed by Stray Gunfire in Chicago"},"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\">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%2Fjewish-student-killed-by-stray-gunfire-in-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=584291&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 readability=\"28.841201716738\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Killing comes amid city&#8217;s surge in violent crime<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Students-Chicago-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Students-Chicago-e1609964541465.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Students-Chicago-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Students-Chicago-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Students-Chicago-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tHigh school students in Chicago wait for the bus in March, 2020  \/  Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/cole-carnick\/\" title=\"Posts by Cole Carnick\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Cole Carnick<\/a> \u2022 July 6, 2021 4:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"91.252029047416\">\n<p>A Jewish University of Chicago student died Sunday after being struck by a stray bullet on a city train\u2014the second Jewish student killed in recent weeks in the crime-plagued city.<\/p>\n<p>Max Lewis, 20, was commuting home from his summer internship Thursday when a bullet passed into his train and struck his neck. First responders transported Lewis, who was in critical condition, to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he passed away Sunday. Police say the student was not the shooter&#8217;s intended target, <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2021\/7\/4\/22563568\/max-solomon-lewis-dead-univeristy-chicago-train-cta-shot-gun-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>Chicago Sun-Times<\/em>. Authorities have not provided a description of the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s shooting follows the killing of 31-year-old Anat Kimchi, a Jewish University of Maryland doctoral student who was stabbed by a homeless person while visiting the city in June. Kimchi&#8217;s assailant, who has been charged with first-degree murder, allegedly attacked two other women over a nine-day span last month.<\/p>\n<p>Both killings come amid a surge in violent crime in Chicago. Between Jan. 1 and mid-June, there were 1,587 shooting victims in the city\u2014nearly 200 more victims compared with the same period last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/data\/ct-shooting-victims-map-charts-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em>. Over Independence Day weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/chicago-shootings-gun-violence-police-weekend\/10864499\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than<\/a> 100 people were shot in the city, including a six-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference last month, Mayor Lori Lightfoot downplayed the crime spike, saying &#8220;crime is not out of control in our city.&#8221; &#8220;In fact, crime is on the decline,&#8221; Lightfoot said. &#8220;All of our major indices show a decline in our crime, and our homicides, and our shootings year over year are down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Police Department superintendent David Brown, however, has blamed lenient criminal prosecution for the city&#8217;s surge in violent crime, saying there are &#8220;too many violent offenders released back to our communities&#8221; and &#8220;too little consequences, ultimately, for violent offenders who are arrested, charged, and brought before the courts.&#8221; Illinois in February became the first state to abolish cash bail. Cook County State&#8217;s Attorney Kim Foxx, Chicago&#8217;s chief prosecutor, has also declined to prosecute thousands of misdemeanor offenses, as well as cases of felony theft, <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2021\/3\/28\/22355204\/foxx-says-new-study-backs-her-stance-too-many-misdemeanors-case-brought-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>Sun-Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Violent crimes against Jews have skyrocketed in recent years, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/jewish-groups-call-on-state-attorneys-general-to-take-action-to-stem-anti-semitic-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spurring<\/a> calls for state attorneys general to take action to protect their Jewish communities.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Killing comes amid city&#8217;s surge in violent crime  High school students in Chicago wait for the bus in March, 2020 \/ Getty Images &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1893723,"comment_status":"close","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"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\/584291","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}