150 shot dead over US holiday weekend
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The United States celebrated Independence Day with parades, barbecues and fireworks, but in violence-plagued Chicago, 88 people were shot, 14 of them fatally.
The holiday weekend violence comes after increased media and police attention to the problem that has plagued Chicago all year, the nation鈥檚 third-largest city which is on pace for more murders than the 774 recorded in 2020 鈥 which was Chicago鈥檚 second deadliest year in the last two decades and more than New York and Los Angeles combined.
Holiday weekends usually are especially deadly in Chicago, and members of Chicago鈥檚 City Council took the unprecedented step of grilling police superintendent David Brown for six hours on July.
But 10 more people were shot than last weekend, when 78 were shot, 10 fatally, across the city. Last year 87 people were shot in Chicago, 17 fatally, over a four-day stretch that included July 4. That is a day more than this holiday weekend, so this year鈥檚 July 4 gun violence was worse.
Nationwide, there were more than 400 shootings over the July 4 weekend and at least 150 people died, according to data collected by the Gun Violence Archive.
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