Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown is expected to provide a public safety update at 12 p.m. Monday after at least five children were shot across Chicago over the weekend, authorities said.
About an hour later, in Washington Heights, a 17-year-old male was shot in the left eye while sitting on the front porch of a home at 9000 S. Justine St., authorities said. The teen was transported to a nearby hospital in serious condition, according to police.
Later Saturday night in the Grand Crossing neighborhood, another 14-year-old was shot, officials said. According to police, at 6:23 p.m. in the 7200 block of S. Dobson, a 14-year-old and a 19-year-old were walking down the road when a vehicle pulled down the side of the the street and fired shots, striking both victims. Both were transported to nearby hospitals in good condition.
In the latest incident, on Sunday, at 11:22 a.m. in the 10800 block of State St. in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood, a 7-year-old boy was shot while on his way to church with his family, police said. According to authorities, a man was trying to break into a car the young boy's family owned. As relatives tried to confront the man, he began to shoot at the family, wounding the boy in his leg, Chicago police said.Community Activist Andrew Holmes spoke late Sunday night calling for people to turn in these shooters.
"Somebody knows who shot these kids," Holmes said."Somebody was out there. Somebody was driving. Somebody was walking. Someone body seen something, somebody heard something. Use the tools that we got, our eyes, our ears and our mouth.”
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