7 people dead, 48 injured in Chicago shootings
Several shootings in the US city of Chicago have left at least 7 people dead and 48 more injured from Saturday to Monday.
According to local authorities, a 16-year-old boy was shot dead and at least 10 more people, including a police officer, were wounded in shootings on Monday, the CBS reported.
Police spokesman Officer Kevin Quaid said the boy was dead on the scene after being shot in the head.
Earlier on Sunday, 2 people were killed and three others were wounded after being shot while sitting on a porch during a party.
A 25-year-old man was also shot dead on Sunday. The man was pronounced dead in a hospital after police found him unresponsive on the sidewalk.
Moreover, a 38-year-old man was shot in the neck and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Another fatal shooting on Sunday claimed the life of a 27-year-old man who suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and later died in a hospital.
The deadly shootings did not end there as a 24-year-old man was shot to death in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side, in yet another gun-related incident on Sunday.
Only a day before, the neighborhood was the scene of another fatal shooting that took a a 22-year-old man’s life.
According to figures by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), firearms kill more than 33,000 people in the United States every year- a number that includes accidental discharge, murder and suicides.
About 4.5 million firearms are sold annually in the United States at a cost of 2 to 3 billion dollars.
It is estimated that currently there are between 270 million and 300 million guns in the US, about one gun for one per person, according to the New York Daily News.
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