A three-year-old was shot dead in Chicago a week ago. Now a very similar case occurs: a man stops in his car next to a 22-year-old mother and fires eight shots – a small child dies.
In Chicago, a one-year-old boy was shot out of a car. The shooter stopped next to the 22-year-old mother’s car and fired eight shots, the police said. He had fatally hit the little boy in the chest. The mother had been shot on the head. There were no arrests at first.
“This happens far too often,” said Chicago Police chief Fred Waller to journalists. “When does that end? When do we say: Enough is enough,” asked Waller with a view to the debate on stricter arms legislation in the United States.
The firearm attack on mother and child occurred only a week after a three-year-old was killed in similar circumstances in western Chicago. In this case, too, the shooter has not yet been caught. “We will catch the person who killed the three-year-old child. And we will catch the person who killed this child,” Waller said.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfood and Chief Inspector David Brown called on witnesses to report information to the police. Everyone in town should be outraged by the violence, Brown said. “This baby and all of our citizens deserve better.”
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