(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Pressed about a rash of weekend shootings in downtown Chicago, the city’s top cop acknowledged Monday that more shootings are occurring there even as they decline in neighborhoods that have long struggled with gun violence.
“We’ve seen some displacement issues,” Supt. David Brown told reporters Monday. “We’re starting to see increases in areas that we normally don’t have those increases.”
Brown said the department hopes to put more officers on patrol and keep them on the streets through the end of the summer. Mayor Lightfoot agreed that more needs to be done to make people feel safer.
In one of the downtown attacks, a woman was killed and another woman was wounded outside the 10pin in the 300 block of North State Street when a man got out of a car during an argument and opened fire around 1 a.m. Saturday, according to Chief of Detective Brendan Deenihan.
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A 26-year-old woman was shot in the chest and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said. A 31-year-old woman was shot in the left thigh and taken to the hospital in good condition, officials said.
Early Sunday, a teen was shot to death inside the Sonesta ES Sites at 201 E. Walton Place when people who were allowed in through a side door began arguing and shooting at each other, according to police.
Officers were called to the hotel around 5 a.m. and found an 18-year-old man wounded on the second floor. A gun was lying next to him, police said. He was was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and pronounced dead.
And Sunday evening two men were wounded near the Theater District in the Loop when the victims of a robbery opened fire at the thieves and hit them instead.
The robbery had occurred at a Taco Bell near the 100 block of North Wabash Street late Sunday afternoon, according to Deenihan. The victims began chasing the robbers and firing at them, he said.
Two men, 27 and 55 — described by Deenihan as “unintended targets” — were shot in an alley on the block.
The younger man suffered a gunshot wound to the right hand and the older man was struck in the head, police said. Both were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in fair condition, police said.
The Sunday evening performance of “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” at the Nederlander Theatre at 24 W. Randolph — about two blocks from the shooting — was canceled though the shooting wasn’t specifically given as the reason.
No arrests have been reported in any of the attacks.
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