Chicago security officer shot multiple times expected to live
Chicago IL July 31 2021
A private security officer came under attack during a weekend of violence.
The security officer suffered multiple gunshot wounds but is expected to survive police said.
A 16-year-old boy died Friday night, two days after he was wounded in one of two mass shootings in a span of a few minutes in Lawndale.
Davion Wright is now the second teenager to die from his wounds from the shooting near Douglas Boulevard and Christiana Avenue around 6 p.m. on Wednesday.
Halfway through the year, more people have been shot and more people have been killed in Chicago than this time last year, when violence reached levels not seen since the mid-1990s.
Chicago has seen at least 336 homicides for the first six months of the year, just two more than at this point in 2020 but 33 percent more than 2019’s 252 homicides, according to an analysis by the Sun-Times.
The city has recorded at least 1,892 shootings through June 28, the most recently available statistics, an increase of almost 12 percent compared to 2020’s 1,692 and a 53 percent increase over 2019’s 1,234 shootings during the same time.
Last year was one of the deadliest in the city in decades, with 775 killed, a sharp spike from the 500 homicides in 2019.
