USA: At least 60 people shot in violent Chicago holiday weekend

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"With these kind of numbers in Chicago, from the White House on down to the city there should be a response: What do we do? How do we stop this?"

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Source/Credit: ABC 7
By Eyewitness News | July 6, 2014

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It has been a violent July Fourth weekend in Chicago, as more than 60 people have been shot and at least nine have died of their wounds. Police have fired their weapons in five incidents.

A 21-year-old is dead, the latest in a series of fatal shootings that have taken place over the holiday weekend. Relatives say he was sitting in a car on the 5200 block of West Lake Street when someone approached the vehicle and shot him in the head. His 19-year-old cousin was also injured.

Also, 16-year-old Warren Robinson was shot by police officers Saturday night. Police say he was hiding under a car, gun in hand pointed at an officer. His mother says that's not true.

"He didn't have a gun on him," Georgina Utendahl said. "I have witnesses who saw him running from other people and police shot him."

And despite recent statistics, which police say show the number of shootings and homicides to be down overall for the year so far, there is no denying this has been a very bad weekend.

Just Sunday evening, multiple shootings have taken place, including several on the Far South Side. At 132nd Street and Prairie, a woman was shot in the arm and a man in the stomach following one incident. Blocks away, a woman in her 60's was grazed in the head by a stray bullet while standing on her front porch.

"With these kind of numbers in Chicago, from the White House on down to the city there should be a response: What do we do? How do we stop this?" said Father Michael Pfleger, St. Sabina Catholic Church.

An outspoken critic of the gun violence that continues to afflict the city's South and West Sides, Fr. Pfleger pointed out the irony of this latest outbreak taking place during the July 4th weekend.

"We're celebrating independence, but we feel like we're in prison," he said. "It's unacceptable. We wouldn't accept in in Iraq, we shouldn't accept in it Chicago."


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