America has endured another bloody weekend of gun violence, with at least 82 people being shot and killed in Chicago, Philadelphia and NYC alone.
Chicago was worst affected from Friday afternoon to Sunday evening, with at least 52 shootings recorded, and five people dead, including a 7-year-old girl.
Philadelphia saw 11 shootouts, and resulted in five casualties, while 16 people were shot. New York City Single, during a two-hour period.
Eight of them were killed in the same incident at a housing complex in Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood. This happened after three people were shot dead in New York on Saturday.
In Chicago, a seven-year-old girl sitting in the back of a parked car died during the city’s latest orgy, while her six-year-old sister also sustained a lung injury after being shot.
The sisters, 7, left, and Aubrey, 6, Broughton, were shot in Chicago over a weekend of gun violence in three cities across the country. peace will die of his injuries
The girls were shot at around 2 p.m. on Sunday, just as their parents had tied them to the family car on a trip to their grandmother’s house.
The girls’ grandmother, Regina Broughton, identified the sisters in Serenity – who died – and Aubrey Broughton, who are being treated for serious wounds in the hospital after the shooting in the Windy City’s Belmont neighborhood.
Both received multiple bullets, and died in hospital from Serenity’s injuries, officials said, while Aubrey was taken out of the ICU by Sunday evening, suffering from a perforated lung, CBS2 Reported.
Police had reacted to reports of rapid firing in the area around 2.50 pm after two girls were injured in the back of their mother’s parked vehicle.
Shanti was shot in the chest and torso, while Aubrey had bullet wounds in the chest and right armpit.
Both were taken to Loyola University Medical Center, where Serenity was pronounced dead.
His grandmother, Regina Broughton (pictured) was expecting to visit her two granddaughters that afternoon. Instead she traveled to the hospital
The two were on their way out of their maternal grandfather’s house to meet Regina, who, upon hearing about the shooting, rushed to the hospital and found that Serenity had died.
‘She was getting into the car coming from her grandmother’s house and lost her life at that very moment. I mean, it’s just absurd,’ she told CBS 2.
‘And you know, someone must come forward and say something. Someone must come forward and help the family, and help us – because it was not meant to be with him. This should not have happened to him. She was innocent. She was 7 years old. His birthday was about to come in November.
Serenity was scheduled to fly to South Carolina with her grandmother on Tuesday
Until Sunday, she said, Aubrey didn’t know her sister had died.
Regina said both the parents were at the scene and their son was on the driver’s side of the car. Her mother had just put Aubrey in the back seat.
Grandma said, ‘The other sister was already sitting in her car seat with the button pressed, and my son said he held her – and she was just lifeless.’
Regina mentioned that she was scheduled to go to South Carolina with the girls for a trip to Myrtle Beach on Tuesday. He said this would have been the first visit to Serenity by an aircraft.
‘How do you prepare yourself for something like this?’ he said. ‘She was a beautiful child. His soul was beautiful. Everything about him was flawless.’
Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Brian McDermott said the girls were not believed to be the intended targets, and their deaths were under investigation.
To say that I am sad and angry would be an understatement. I can only hope that every resident of the city is as angry, sad and outraged as it is at this time,’ he said during a press conference on Sunday evening.
‘Many young people have lost their lives in the senseless gun violence in the city of Chicago.’
The shootings in Chicago come as gun violence erupted in the city this weekend, with 52 reported shootings and five killed
The weekend massacre in the city began at 5.15 p.m. Friday, when 18-year-old Nikko Mercado was killed in a drive-by shooting, CBS2 also reported.
Then a 17-year-old boy was killed and two others were seriously injured in a shootout on the Eisenhower Expressway at 8.34 am on Friday.
A 59-year-old man was shot and killed multiple times in the West Humboldt Park section of the city at 12.40 pm on Saturday.
A 26-year-old man was shot in his torso while walking down the sidewalk in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood at 8.15 pm on Saturday. He was taken to the hospital where he was declared brought dead.
A 33- and 34-year-old man was standing in a group in the city’s Grand Crossing neighborhood at 1.59 a.m. when the two were shot. The 33-year-old suffered a chest injury and was later declared brought dead.
More than 2,123 people were shot in Chicago before the end of this week, a 12 percent increase from the same period last year. abc news.
Five people were killed and 11 were injured in separate shootings in Philadelphia.
Five people were killed and 11 injured in shootings in Philadelphia on Friday and Saturday
It was last reported at 9 p.m. Saturday, when a 25-year-old man was shot multiple times in the neighboring Toga-Nicketown section, abc6 Reported.
At 5 a.m. Saturday, police shot a man in the parking lot of a gas station in the Wynfield neighborhood of Philadelphia at around 5 p.m. He was taken to the hospital where he was declared brought dead.
Earlier, two men, aged 25 and 30, were shot multiple times on Saturday midnight in the city’s Tioga-Nicketown neighborhood, leaving the 25-year-old’s condition critical. The 30-year-old died of injuries.
In the city’s southwest area, a man was shot dead at around 2 a.m. Saturday in a Rite Aid parking lot, and a man was shot in the head shortly thereafter at around 3 p.m. in the downtown Kensington neighborhood. Killed and killed.
Police said that no one has been arrested in the firing.
As of this weekend, 1,333 were shot in Philadelphia this year, a 19 percent increase compared to the same period in 2020.
In New York, the city killed three gunmen in a span of four hours on Saturday, and wounded 16 in a shootout on Sunday in a span of about 90 minutes.
New York City also saw its share in gun violence. Police photo at the scene of a party shooting at 12.30 p.m. Monday in Brooklyn, when eight people were shot and injured
The murder began at 12.20 p.m. Saturday, when a man was found lying next to a motorcycle in the Bronx with a bullet wound to the head. He was declared brought dead at the scene.
Then, around 1 a.m., a 38-year-old man was shot in Queens, and was taken to hospital where he was also pronounced dead.
Eventually at 4 a.m. a 27-year-old man standing on the street in the Bronx was shot and killed. A 23-year-old youth was also with him, who was injured.
The firing started around 11 pm on Sunday night. photos 11 Reportedly, three men in their 20s were shot on the side of a road in Queens.
Then half an hour later a 32-year-old man was shot in the leg in Brooklyn.
Eight people were shot and wounded at a large party in Brooklyn in another shooting at 12.25 p.m. on Monday. The victims ranged in age from 18 to 27, and one suffered a face injury and was left in critical condition.
Just five minutes later, another man was shot in the head in Queens and was also left in critical condition.
Ultimately, at 12.35 a.m., three teenagers sitting in an SUV were shot and wounded in Brooklyn. The 18-year-old driver was shot in the head and was taken to hospital in critical condition.
No arrests have been made in the shooting so far, they come as 1,109 people were shot dead in the city in 2021, a 10.9 percent increase from the same period last year.
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