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https://abcnews.go.com/US/35-shot-weekend-chicago-governor-rejects-trumps- threat/story?id=125134744

At least 53 people have been shot, seven fatally, across Chicago over
Labor Day weekend, including a drive-by attack that left seven victims
wounded, according to police.

The violent holiday weekend came as President Donald Trump renewed threats
to send federal agents and National Guard troops to Chicago over the
objections of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.

Trump on Saturday sent a warning to Pritzker in a post on his social media platform, referencing recent crime in Chicago and saying Pritzker "better straighten it out, FAST, or we're coming!"

Pritzker, a Democrat, responded in a news conference a week ago to an
earlier Trump threat to "straighten out Chicago, just like we did D.C.,"
by saying that the president's plan was "unprecedented and unwarranted. It
is illegal, it is unconstitutional, it is un-American."

Johnson responded last week by saying in part that he had "grave concerns
about the impact of any unlawful deployment of National Guard troops to
the city of Chicago," and calling Trump's approach "uncoordinated,
uncalled for, and unsound." Johnson also said that deploying the National
Guard in Chicago could "inflame tensions between residents and law enforcement."

On Saturday, Johnson signed an executive order dubbed the "Protecting
Chicago Initiative," which he described in a news conference as "the most sweeping campaign of any city in the country to protect ourselves from the threats and actions of this out-of-control administration" and which
"directs our department of law to pursue any and every legal mechanism to
hold this administration accountable for violating the rights of
Chicagoans."

"We have received credible reports that we have days, not weeks, before
our city sees some type of militarized activity by the federal
government," Johnson said, in part. "We take these threats seriously and
we find ourselves in a position where we must take immediate, drastic
action to protect our people from federal overreach."

At least 31 separate shootings occurred in Chicago between 10:32 p.m.
Friday and 3:11 a.m. Monday, according to a review by ABC News of police incident reports published online.

The victims included a 17-year-old girl who was inside her home when a
bullet came through a front window and hit her in the arm, a 31-year-old
man who was shot in the leg after getting caught in the crossfire of
gunmen shooting at each other from two vehicles, and two people who shot
and injured while driving down a street, all according to the incident
reports.

Fewer than five hours after Trump posted a message on social media on
Saturday criticizing Pritzker's handling of crime in Chicago, a mass
shooting occurred in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago's South Side
that left seven people wounded.

"He better straighten it out, FAST, or we’re coming!" Trump said in his
post about Pritzker.

The shooting in Bronzeville occurred about 11:10 p.m. on Saturday on South State Street, according to police. A group of people were gathered outside
in the area when a vehicle drove by and at least one occupant opened fire
on the crowd. All seven people shot, five men and two women ranging in age
from 28 to 32, were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries
to their lower extremities, police said. No suspects have been arrested.

The first of seven homicides that police say occurred over the long
holiday weekend happened at 11:56 p.m. on Friday at the South Shore
apartment complex on East Essex Street, where two women were discovered
shot, according to police.

A 25-year-old woman was found in the apartment suffering from two gunshot wounds to her stomach and one to her leg, according to a police incident report. She was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where
she was pronounced dead, according to authorities. The victim's name was
not immediately released.

The second victim, a 23-year-old woman, suffered gunshot wounds to both
legs and was in fair condition at the University of Chicago Medical
Center.

Investigators were interviewing a person of interest in the East Essex
Street homicide but no arrests have been announced, according to police.

Elsewhere, two men were shot, one fatally, in the East Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago around 11 a.m. on Saturday, according to police.
The victims were standing outside on North Sawyer Avenue when a dark SUV approached them and a gunman exited the vehicle and opened fire, according
to a police incident report.

A 29-year-old man, whose name was not immediately released, was shot
multiple times and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced
dead, according to police. The second victim, a 32-year-old man, suffered
a gunshot wound to his right side and was in stable condition at Mount
Sinai, police said. No arrests have been announced in the incident.

Also on Saturday, gunfire erupted in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood.
Around 7:46 p.m., a 43-year-old woman was standing outside on E. 131st
Street when five armed men approached her and opened fire, striking her multiple times, according to police. The victim, whose name was not
immediately released, was taken to Christ Hospital where she was
pronounced dead, police said.

No arrests have been announced in the Altgeld Gardens homicide.

Around 1:39 a.m. on Sunday, a 46-year-old man, whose name was not
immediately released, was killed in a triple shooting that occurred in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago's Lower West Side, according to police. The victims were standing on West 17th Street when a gunman walked up to them
and opened fire, police said.

The two other victims, a 41-year-old man and a 43-year-old man, suffered gunshot wounds to their legs and were in good condition at Mount Sinai Hospital, police said.

Around 2:52 a.m. on Sunday, a 33-year-old man was killed in the West
Inglewood neighborhood on the Southwest Side of Chicago, police said. The victim got into a argument inside a residence with a man who shot him in
the head, according to police. The victim, whose name was not immediately released, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. No
arrests were announced.

The violence continued Sunday night as police launched two more homicide investigations.

A 26-year-old woman was fatally shot around 7:28 p.m. on Sunday in the
Pullman neighborhood on Chicago's South Side after getting into a verbal altercation with another woman, police said. The victim, whose name was
not released, was shot in the chest and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, according to police. No
arrests have been announced.

Also on Sunday night, police discovered a man lying on the ground
suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in the Little Village neighborhood
of southwest Chicago, police said. The victim, who was found on S. Drake Avenue, died at the scene, police said. No suspects have been identified.

At least three additional shootings unfolded early Monday in the city, including one that left five people wounded, including a 17-year-old boy
who was in critical condition after suffering multiple gunshot wounds,
police said.

Just after 1 a.m. on Monday, police were called to the Oakland
neighborhood on the city's South Side for a report of a large disturbance
on South Cottage Grove Avenue, according to a police incident report. Upon arrival, officers followed the sound of gunfire to an area where they
found the five shooting victims and four discarded firearms, according to police. Besides the critically wounded teenager, police said the four
other victims, ranging in age from 26 to 36, were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.

One person of interest was being questioned in the Oakland neighborhood shooting, but no charges have been announced.

The series of shootings came after President Donald Trump said last week
that he is prepared to order National Guard troops to American cities in addition to those in the nation's capital, but that he wanted local
officials to request his help.

Trump threatened to make Chicago the next city he would target after he declared what he said was a public safety emergency in Washington, D.C.,
and he put the city's police force under federal control on Aug. 11.

Violent crime in Chicago has dropped significantly in the first half of
the year, according to official data released by the city. Shootings are
down 37% and homicides have dropped by 32% compared to the first half of
2024, while total violence crime dropped by over 22%, according to the
crime statistics.

“Do not come to Chicago, you are neither wanted here nor needed here,”
Pritzker further said in response to Trump during a news conference last
week. "Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city to
punish its dissidents and score political points. If this were happening
in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is – a dangerous power-grab."


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