Police say among the injured are a 1-year old and a 7-year-old who are in critical condition.

Police say among the injured are a 1-year old and a 7-year-old who are in critical condition.

Chicago police believe gang-related violence led to the fatal shooting of an 8-year-old girl that also left 10 others injured Saturday night in the city’s South Side.

According to police, the shooting took place near 52nd St. and South Damen Ave. at approximately 9:18 p.m. An 8-year-old girl was killed from a gunshot wound to the head, while two boys — 1 and 7 years old — were critically injured after being shot multiple times.

Deputy Police Chief Don Jerome said police aided in response efforts for the other eight victims, ranging in age from 19 to 40, by applying tourniquets and chest seals.

The victims were reportedly standing outside at a family gathering. A statement released by the Chicago Police Department said a witness saw a black sedan approach the scene when the shots rang out into the crowd. All victims were escorted to local hospitals around the area by the Chicago Fire Department.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            22·
            8 months ago

            Then I’m not sure how ‘poverty and mental illness control’ will do anything about mass shootings.

            • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
              31·
              8 months ago

              That’s the point. It won’t stop them. Reducing poverty will certainly alleviate some. De-stigmatizing mental health problems even more. But wiping out your workplace, killing your entire family, kids shooting up schools…those aren’t usually poverty things. And the mental health aspect ties right back to what I said. They’re law abiding gun owners until they’re not - IOW you can’t do shit about taking someone’s guns away until it’s already too late thanks to the gun lobby.

      • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
        34·
        8 months ago

        All you’re actually saying is “people are too poor and mentally ill to indiscriminately sell guns to”.

        So gun control now and when you’ve finished building your utopia where every single American is cured of every single mental health problem – a standard 100 years beyond current medical science – you can have your guns back.

        We both know that even if we cleared your impossible bar, you’d have a new excuse ready for why we can’t disarm people who are domestic abusers or extremists.