Update: Chicago authorities have now reported 102 shootings in Chicago over the weekend. The number keeps going up.
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Does gun control work?
Let's take a look at Chicago's weekend of blood shed where there are exactly zero firearm retail locations and absolutely no public gun ranges.
As of early Monday morning (June 22nd) 99 people in Chicago have been shot and 12 of them have died.
Don't be surprised if this number changes soon as new data becomes available but Fathers Day weekend 2020 was one of the most violent weekends in the Windy City so far this year.
Sadly many of the victims were young children.
A 13-year-old girl was killed and two other teens were wounded Saturday night in Austin on the West Side.
The girl was inside a home about 8:30 p.m. in the 1000 block of North LeClaire Avenue when the shots were fired, and she was struck in the neck, police said. She was taken to Stroger Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
A 3-year-old boy was fatally wounded about two hours earlier when someone opened fire at his father while they were driving in Austin.
The toddler, identified as Mekay James, was struck in the back about 6:25 p.m. when someone in a blue Honda pulled behind the black SUV the boy’s 27-year-old father was driving in the 600 block of North Central Avenue and fired several rounds, authorities said.
A police source said the father was believed to be the intended target of the shooting.
The father drove the boy to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, police said, but the boy was pronounced dead shortly after arriving. The father was also treated for a graze wound to the abdomen.