New Chicago Mayor Responds After Violent Memorial Day Weekend
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson issued a statement on Tuesday condemning the city’s most violent Memorial Day weekend on record, calling it “intolerable.”
The weekend ended with 53 shooting victims and 12 murders, FOX 32 Chicago reported.
Victims of the shootings range in age from 2 to 77 years, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) said. At least a dozen of them were fired at while standing on sidewalks late at night and into the early morning hours.
The violence came close to Johnson’s home when a man who lives across the street from the mayor was charged with stabbing a woman to death in South Austin, reported CBS….