Nearly 40 Shot During Weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago

One of additional shooting deaths occurred at 3:30 a.m. Sunday “in the 800-block of North Orleans Street.” A 24-year-old driver was at a stoplight when someone in a white SUV opened fire on him, shooting him multiple times.

The driver was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead.

File/Chicago police work with U.S. Postal Service inspectors after a service mail carrier was shot Aug. 1, 2023, in the 3200 block of North Kildare Avenue in Chicago. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Chicago, like all of Illinois, has an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, a red flag law, a 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases, and gun owner licensing. Additionally, Cook County, where Chicago is located, has its own “assault weapons” ban.

The Sun-Times indicated there were 384 homicides in Chicago January 1, 2023, through August 20, 2023.

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