A 14-year-old boy shot in the head from a passing car was one of three people killed and 28 others wounded during another violent weekend in Chicago, according to authorities.
Damien Santoyo, 14, was gunned on the steps of a home in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood at 2:35 a.m. on Sunday. Someone shouted gang slogans from inside a passing car and opened fire, Chicago Tribune reported.
“I’m so sorry,” Santoyo’s mother cried out from the same wooden steps where he was killed. “I wasn’t there for you. Oh, my baby. I’m so sorry. Get up, please.”
The weekend violence brought the number of people killed this year to 415. A total of at least 2,256 have been shot, according to data kept by Chicago Tribune.
The three murders happened between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
On Sunday, Aug. 6, a 30-year-old woman shot Damien Hernandez, 33, three times at around 5:20 a.m. as part of a domestic altercation. Hernandez was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the medical examiner’s office, Hernandez lived on the block where he was killed. Police have arrested the woman and charges are pending.
Marvin Hines, 39, was fatally shot while driving a car at 10:40 p.m. Saturday near Sherwood Park in the Englewood neighborhood. Police found his car crashed into a fence of a home. Hines lived in the 600 block of West 61st Street, the medical examiner’s office said.
Two men were shot while riding in a car at 7:55 p.m. on Sunday.
A 33-year-old man was critically injured in a shooting in the 1000 of North Clark Street.
Ten people were shot and wounded in separate attacks within nine hours from Friday afternoon to Saturday morning.
A 31-year-old man riding in a car was shot and critically injured in the 5100 block of South Hoyne Avenue in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side.
Residents are allowed to leave their home as Chicago Police investigate a murder scene in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on July 27, 2017, in Chicago, Ill. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)Chicago’s recent rash of shootings—101 people were shot over the Independence Day weekend alone—prompted President Donald Trump to bemoan the response of city leaders to the bloodshed, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to describe some of its areas as “killing fields.”
Thrust into a national debate over violent crime and the use of force by officers, police in the third largest U.S. city are using technology to try to rein in a surging murder rate.
One of the technologies being used in the 7th District is HunchLab, a predictive policing program made by Philadelphia-based company Azavea. It combines crime data with factors including the location of local businesses, the weather, and socioeconomic information to forecast where crime might occur. The results help officers decide how to deploy resources.
Another is the Strategic Subject’s List, a database of individuals likely to be involved in shootings that was developed by the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Reuters contributed to this report.
