9 dead, 25 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings, including boy who 'was unintended target'
The shootings come as murders rose 139 percent in Chicago in July
By Greg Norman | Fox News
A series of shootings over the weekend in Chicago has left nine people dead and 25 wounded, closing out a violent July in which murders there more than doubled compared to the same month last year, reports say.
Tragedy first struck Friday evening when Janari Ricks, a 9-year-old who was playing with a group of friends, died after being hit in the chest by a gunman who walked up and started opening fire, investigators say. Chicago Police Department Chief of Operations Brian McDermott told the Sun-Times newspaper that Ricks “was an unintended target," and now a $4,000 reward is being offered for information about the person who pulled the trigger.
“While our City has made progress in reducing violence in recent weeks, all of that is lost when we lose another child to gun violence,†Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted following the incident.
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