CHICAGO-LAND: 59 SHOT, EIGHT DEAD IN SINCE FRIDAY

August 6, 2018 in News by RBN Staff

SOURCE: ABC

Dozens of people were wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday, police said.One paramedic described the evening as “a war zone.”

Since midnight, police said 43 people have been shot, six fatally.

Since Friday at 5 p.m., 60 people have been shot, nine fatally, in shootings in Chicago. 34 of the shootings and five deaths occurred between 10 a.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday, according to police.

During one two-and-a-half hour-hour period, 25 people were shot in five multi-injury shootings.

“We know that some of these incidents were targeted and are related to gang conflicts in those areas,” said Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Fred Waller at a press conference Sunday afternoon.

Police said there was a “trauma lockdown” at Stroger Hospital, with only immediate family members of victims being allowed in the emergency room.