Chicago sets new record: 18 murdered in 24 hour period

Hey Detroit, NYC, LA, this one's gonna be hard to beat !

"Most homicide victims in Chicago are young, black men, and the suspects are, too."

18 murders in 24 hours: Inside the most violent day in 60 years in Chicago

“We’ve never seen anything like it, at all,” said Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab.

A hardworking father killed just before 1 a.m.


A West Side high school student murdered two hours later.


A man killed amid South Side looting at a cellphone store at 12:30 p.m.


A college freshman who hoped to become a correctional officer, gunned down at 4:25 p.m. after getting into an argument in Englewood.


While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab’s data doesn’t go back further than 1961.


From 7 p.m. Friday, May 29, through 11 p.m. Sunday, May 31, 25 people were killed in the city, with another 85 wounded by gunfire, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times.


Good, up it to 10000 a day and clean up that shithole, Hang mayor lightfoot. Damn that be one uguly biach. And dumb.
 

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