At least eight people--some reports say six--were killed and 30 other people were injured in Chicago on July 4 as the holiday weekend starts, it was reported.
Among those wounded were a 5-year-old boy and a 7-year-old boy, who were both shot in separate incidents, the Chicago Tribune reported. The 7-year-old was in critical condition on Friday.
“It makes me want to go in the house with my kids and never come back out,” Jasmine Dillon Donald, the mother of one the 5-year-old, told NBC.
She said the boy was with around 20 other young children and their mothers at a park.
“It’s very disturbing that our children have to listen to firecrackers and fireworks and all of a sudden [have to] duck,” community activist Andrew Holmes told the broadcaster.
And Chicago police shot and killed a man in the Washington Park area on the South Side, CBS Chicago said.
Police also shot and killed 17-year-old Christian Green when he pointed a gun at officers, police told CBS.
Police said the most recent murder was on 5:15 a.m. on Friday in the Rogers Park area. A man was also shot on Thursday night in the Englewood neighborhood, also on the South Side.
The Chicago Tribune reported that five of the victims were shot on the West Side, the smallest district in Chicago. There were shootings in West Woodlawn, South Shore, Gresham, Fernwood, and Rosemoor.
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