Chicago ended the year and started a new one in violent fashion over the holiday weekend when a series of gun crimes left seven dead and 21 injured.
One of the dead was a 9-year-old boy, Jarvis M. Watts, inside his home Sunday night, Fox Chicago reported. Several adults were being questioned in the case.
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A Chicago police officer processes the crime scene. The city saw widespread gun violence over the holiday weekend, leaving seven people dead and 21 others injured.
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Hours earlier, a 17-year-old was fatally shot and three others, ages 14, 15 and 17, were wounded in a two-vehicle shootout in Washington Park.
Several men were killed and wounded in several other shootings over the weekend, according to news reports. In one incident, two men were shot to death inside a home on Friday night when shots rang out.
Murders in the city dropped from 804 in 2021 to 695 as of the end of Saturday, according to police data. Robberies, vehicle thefts, thefts and thefts all registered increases. Vehicle thefts more than doubled from 2021 to last year.
Shootings also saw a 20% decrease in 2022.
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Over the course of 2022, the Chicago Police Department seized 12,716 firearms on the streets, the department said in an annual review.
