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CHICAGO (WGN) — It’s been a convulsive Labor Day play successful Chicago truthful far, with dozens of shooting victims and aggregate deaths reported astir the metropolis since Friday evening.
The Chicago Police Department volition merchandise authoritative numbers Tuesday morning, but arsenic of aboriginal Monday, NewsNation section affiliate WGN News counted 50 radical shot, including 8 killed, since 5 p.m. Friday.
The youngest idiosyncratic changeable truthful acold appears to beryllium a 14-year-old boy, and astatine slightest 3 of the play shootings included aggregate victims.
According to WGN's count, this year's Labor Day play unit whitethorn person already surpassed past year's, erstwhile a full of 31 radical were shot.
The tragic play comes arsenic President Donald Trump's medication prepares for an accrued beingness of national agents and a imaginable mobilization of National Guard troops successful Chicago.
Trump lashed retired against Gov. JB Pritzker successful a societal media posting Saturday, informing him that helium indispensable straighten retired Chicago’s transgression problems rapidly “or we’re coming.”
Still, the latest information from CPD shows transgression is down wide this twelvemonth by 13%, portion shooting incidents person dropped astir 40% compared to 2024’s numbers.
Nonetheless, the Labor Day play weapon unit continued overnight Sunday into the Monday holiday. Here's a person look astatine immoderate of the incidents:
The astir caller reported homicide, according to Chicago police, happened Sunday nighttime successful the Brighton Park vicinity connected the city's Southwest Side.
