#Shooting at chicago bean series
The bloody Friday came just as 11,000 fans gathered at the Fiserv Forum to attend Game Six of the Milwaukee Bucks' playoff series against the Boston Celtics. 'We will not tolerate these types of actions in Milwaukee,' he said at the news conference, adding that 'people have just too easy access to guns.' Johnson also said he is not ruling out calling in the Wisconsin National Guard, and is in continual conversation with Gov. on Saturday and Sunday, and officers in the area will target any teenagers who are 'loitering or otherwise acting unlawful' with citations. The curfew will be in effect from 11 p.m. He announced his city's curfew in a news conference on Saturday, hours after a mass shooting left 17 people injured following the Milwaukee Bucks' playoff game against the Boston Celtics.
Just to the north, Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson was dealing with similar problems. The night was organized through a digital-brochure that was circulated on social media. Pritzker's mansion, prompting police to block off the area with snow plows. It is formally known as 'Cloud Gate,' but it came to be known as 'The Bean' for its bean-like shape.įootage from the night shows rowdy youths running through the streets of Chicago, dancing and even climbing on top of cars and public transit buses.Īt one point the mayhem reached within a block of Illinois Governor J.B. 'The Bean' sculpture is a popular tourist attraction in downtown Chicago. cities, surpassing Los Angeles´ tally by 400 and New York's by nearly 300. Chicago´s 797 homicides in 2021 - its highest toll for any year in a quarter century - eclipsed the totals in the two bigger U.S. cities reported dramatic spikes in homicide totals last year. This year, Chicago has recorded 779 shooting incidents and 194 homicides, compared to 898 shootings and 207 homicides during the same period in 2021, according to figures last updated by the Chicago Police Department on May 8.Ĭhicago and some other U.S. The shooting comes amid a surge in deadly violence in the city. demonstration - though participants had largely dispersed by late afternoon. It is unclear if the teen who was shot had taken part in the 1 p.m. against the recently leaked draft opinion that suggests the Supreme Court is prepared to overturn the nationwide right to abortion. Hundreds of people were at the park earlier Saturday as part of demonstrations around the U.S. 'We all must condemn this behavior in the strongest terms possible.' 'We must also have zero tolerance for young people carrying firearms or settling petty disputes with acts of violence,' the mayor's statement said. The teen, who has not been identified, has been charged with second-degree murder.Ĭhicago police look for evidence on South State Street in downtown Chicago after a shooting on Saturday He was taken to Lurie Children's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.Ĭhicago Police Superintendent David Brown said Sunday afternoon also said that a 17-year-old was taken into custody after the shooting and a weapon was found on the teen.
Saturday near the giant, mirrored structure. Police said Holliday was shot in the chest at about 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Sunday without an adult. Officials did not comment on how the curfew will be enforced - though they did say that people 'going to work, government officials, social service workers, and credentialed members of the press acting in their official capacity' will be exempt from the order. Officials announced Sunday afternoon that minors will not be allowed in Millennium Park after 6 p.m. Milwaukee implemented a similar measure for anyone under the age of 21 Saturday and Sunday night after three people were killed and 24 were injured in nine shootings across the city. The curfew will ban unaccompanied minors from a popular city park on weekend evenings, an attempt to combat violence after teenager Seandell Holliday was fatally shot near a popular tourist attraction - a sculpture called 'The Bean' - in downtown Chicago's Millennium Park.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot became the second Midwestern official to implement a curfew for unaccompanied minors this weekend after a spate of deadly gun violence, which saw a 16-year-old boy shot dead.
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