暴力周末在芝加哥当局说,至少有48人在不同的事件中被枪杀,包括两名警察,他们在周日早上对散弹枪探测警报作出反应时受伤。
据美国广播公司新闻报道,芝加哥警察局的事件报告显示,周五至周日上午,至少有五人在一连串枪击事件中丧生。
警方表示,受伤的受害者中有6名17岁以下的儿童,包括一名2岁的女孩,她当时正坐在汽车后座上,被另一辆车发射的子弹击中。据报道,两名14岁的青少年和一名13岁的青少年也在不同的事件中被枪击受伤。
“让我们为我们城市的和平祈祷,”芝加哥市长洛里·莱特福特在周日上午的新闻发布会上说。“我们必须把这些枪放下。我们必须阻止非法枪支流入我们的城市。”
芝加哥警察总监大卫·布朗和莱特福特一起出现在新闻发布会上,公布了周日早上7点19分左右发生的枪击事件的细节。这起枪击事件导致两名警察因枪伤被送往医院。
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晚上街上有警灯。
布朗说,一名受伤的警察肩膀被击中,就在他的防弹背心上方,另一名警察的手被击中。他说,两名警官正在西奈山医院接受治疗,情况良好。
布朗说,当警察到达芝加哥西区的劳恩代尔社区时,他们在一条小巷里发现了一个人。当警察接近这个人时,这个人转过身,毫无征兆地开枪,引发了枪战。
负责人说,这名枪手的名字没有立即公布,他的下肢中弹,正在另一家医院接受治疗。
莱特福特说:“这凸显了我们警察部门的男女每天都面临的危险。”。“他们冒着危险保护我们,我们永远不会忘记这一点。”
布朗说,这起枪击事件标志着芝加哥警察今年第29次遭到枪击。他说,在今年的头四个半月里,有六名警察被枪击受伤。
他说,在过去的15个月里,16名芝加哥警察受伤,另有92人被枪杀。
警方5月2日发布的最新计算机犯罪统计报告显示,2021年前三个月,该市发生了865起枪击事件,比2020年同期增长了33%。CompStat报告显示,2021年前三个月,该市发生了195起谋杀案,比2020年同期增长了22%。
周日的事件发生在周末全市爆发的枪击事件中。根据警方报告,在两名警察受伤后不久,一名13岁的男孩在芝加哥西南部的麦金利公园地区被击中头部和颈部。警方说,这名男孩被送往医院,情况危急,他正站在人行道上,这时一辆汽车停下来,其中一名乘客开枪。
在男孩的枪击事件中没有人被捕。
在芝加哥西区的小村庄附近,一名2岁的女孩在坐在汽车后座时被枪杀,随后发生了儿童枪击事件。警方表示,枪声是从另一辆车上发出的。事件中没有人被捕。
警方称,该女孩在西奈山医院接受治疗,情况良好。
警方说,周六凌晨3点多,芝加哥南区的格雷欣社区的一次聚会上发生枪击事件,造成两人死亡,三人受伤。
在两起凶杀案发生大约一个小时后,警方发现了一名身份不明的受害者,他在该市西区西加菲尔德公园附近的一个加油站停车场被击中胸部。受害者被送往西奈山医院,在那里被宣布死亡。
周末还杀害了一名32岁的男子,他于周五午夜前在芝加哥西北部的贝尔蒙特克拉金社区被击中头部。根据警方报告,附近的警察听到枪声,迅速对现场做出反应,并逮捕了一名18岁的嫌疑人,他们看到这名嫌疑人试图用步枪逃离该地区。
周五下午2点17分左右,一名19岁的男子在芝加哥南区的一次驾车枪击中背部中弹身亡。凶杀案中没有人被捕。
2 police officers among 48 people shot in Chicago in violent weekend
A violent weekendin Chicagoleft at least 48 people shot in separate incidents, including two police officers who were wounded on Sunday morning when they responded to a ShotSpotter detection alert, authorities said.
At least five people were killed in the rash of shootings between Friday and Sunday morning, according to Chicago Police Department incident reports reviewed by ABC News.
Police said six children under the age of 17 were among the victims wounded, including a 2-year-old girl who was sitting in the back seat of a car when she was hit by a bullet fired from another vehicle. Two 14-year-olds and a 13-year-old were also shot and wounded in separate incidents, according to the reports.
"Let's pray for peace in our city," Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said at a news conference Sunday morning. "We've got to put these guns down. We've got to stop the flow of illegal guns into our city."
Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown appeared with Lightfoot at the news conference to release details on a shooting around 7:19 a.m. Sunday that sent two police officers to the hospital with gunshot wounds.
One of the wounded officers was hit in the shoulder, just above his bulletproof vest, and the other officer was shot in the hand, Brown said. He said both officers were being treated at Mount Sinai Hospital and were listed in good condition.
Brown said that when the officers arrived in the Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago's West Side, they spotted a person in an alley. As the officers approached the person, the individual turned around and opened fire without warning, prompting a gunfight.
The superintendent said the shooter, whose name was not immediately released, was shot in their lower extremities and was being treated at a different hospital.
"It just underscores the danger our men and women in the police department face every single day," Lightfoot said. "They run to danger to protect us, and we can't ever forget that."
Brown said the shooting marked the 29th time this year that Chicago police officers have been shot at. He said six officers have been wounded by gunfire in the first four and a half months of the year.
In the past 15 months, he said 16 Chicago police officers have been wounded and another 92 were shot at.
The police department's latest computer statistics on crime, or CompStat, report released May 2 shows there were 865 shootings in the city during the first three months of 2021, a 33% increase over the same time span in 2020. The CompStat report shows 195 murders were committed in the city during the first three months of 2021, a jump of 22% from the same time period in 2020.
Sunday's episode came amid shootings that erupted across the city over the weekend. Shortly after the two officers were wounded, a 13-year-old boy was shot in the head and neck in the McKinley Park area of southwest Chicago, according to a police report. Police said the boy, who was taken to a hospital in critical condition, was standing on a sidewalk when a car pulled up and one of its occupants opened fire.
No arrests have been made in the boy's shooting.
The child's shooting came after a 2-year-old girl was shot while riding in the rear seat of car in the Little Village neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. Police said the shots were fired from another vehicle. No arrests have been made in the incident.
The girl was treated at Mount Sinai Hospital and was listed in good condition, police said.
Two men were killed and three were wounded in a shooting that broke out at a party just after 3 a.m. on Saturday in the Gresham neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, police said.
About an hour after the double-homicide, police found an unidentified victim who had been shot in the chest in a gas station parking lot in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the city's West Side. The victim was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Also killed over the weekend was a 32-year-old man who was shot in the head just before midnight on Friday in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood of northwest Chicago. Officers nearby heard the gunshots, responded quickly to the scene, and arrested an 18-year-old suspect they saw attempting to flee the area with a rifle, according to a police report.
Around 2:17 p.m. on Friday, a 19-year-old man died after being shot in the back during a drive-by shooting on the South Side of Chicago. No arrests were made in the homicide.