Children ages 7, 8, and 14 killed as gun violence mars holiday weekend in Chicago and Atlanta

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A rash of shootings in Chicago and Atlanta marred the Fourth of July weekend and left the families of three children grieving over their deaths.

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"When families should be celebrating, having a good time, spending time together, a 7-year-old girl was taken from us," Chief of Detectives Fred Waller of the Chicago Police Department said at a news conference."A 7-year-old girl who was here visiting her grandmother, visiting her family, and now she's gone."

Police said the shooting happened around 11:35 p.m., when four men walked up to the gathering and opened fire. Four other people were wounded in the incident, including an 11-year-old boy who was shot in the leg and ankle and a 15-year-old boy who was shot in the abdomen, according to police.A 10-year-old girl was also wounded in a shooting early Sunday morning in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the far north side of Chicago, police said.

The driver immediately drove to Atlanta Medical Center, where the girl, whose name was not immediately released, was pronounced dead, police said.MORE: 'Nothing short of alarming': Despite stay-at-home orders, 49 people shot in Chicago in Memorial Day gun violence

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Over population is the problem. These slums only have themselves 2 blame 4 the over population.

Just a rash tho, but please wear a mask smfh

Trump needs to more concerned about this and not what is going on with Bubba Wallace BubbaWallace in NASCAR.

Is BLM getting anything from killing their own ppl? Where is the Governors and Mayors are they blind. I’m so upset to see innocent getting kill.

Congrats! Real News! keep it up, these are children who have no voice.

Wow, I am surprised you even took the time to talk about Chicago and Atlanta shootings. However, BLM is silent. I guess it is ONLY SOME BLACK LIVES MATTER!

This needs to be addressed as passionately as the BLM movement from their communities. This is a stain on all of those who don't act. No fucking excuse. Y'all need to man up.

Where are the protests Do only the handful of victims of policing count Where are BlackLivesMatter when it really counts? Are they hiring behind their Marxist ideology instead of standing for innocent children?

BLACK VIOLENCE NEEDS TO STOP

What did these poor children do to have been shot.

Protests scheduled?

I’d like to see politics put aside and get community leaders, city officials, and police on the same page so we can do what needs to be done to stop the huge increase in violent crime.

Democrat controlled cities.

Where are you BLM people. How about a KLM. Kids Lives Matter. Children being innocently slaughtered by violent black people. Yet no one will stand up.

Gangland turf wars...

Awwwww geeeesh!

Hebrews 13:2

What are the politican doing something about the Black on Black violence. They support riots,. And looting . The democrats are supporting black lives matters, a Marxist trained leadership. How about stopping the political fighting and power struggle? Do something

there were killings in every state stop being biased

AMLOistheshameofmexico

Thats ok, black lives dont matter in those cities

But still these overfed politicians will have their own kids safe with security personnel from tax payers but can’t come together to pass strict guidelines to gun laws! A CIVILIAN SHOULD NOT HAVE A GUN PERMIT OR NOT! Guns were made to defend countries for wars!

Who killed the 8 year old in Atlanta ? Just curious if you were going to mention it was protesters or nah.

But defund the police. Perpetuate lawlessness and riots while LoriLightfoot calls them peaceful protests. Democrats have destroyed these once beautiful iconic cities with poor leadership, lackluster vision and invoking racism claims. 4thofJuly chicagopolice

.Seems like the silent BLDM group is taking over..

Terrible! Prayers to the families of these young, innocent souls lost to the cowards that are empowered by false media outlets like yours. Tweeting this at 4:48am ET 36 hours later...dismissive if you ask me.

A rash? Is there any topical ointment for that? BlackLivesMattters...obviously not! DefundThePolice ? LawAndOrder Trump2020 !

pretty sure we need more cops, not less

In that entire article NOT ONE MENTION OF RACE. So we know what this is... black on black crime.

You act like Chicago/Atlanta is the picture of safety on any other day.

So can we all stop pretending like BlackLivesMatter is actually about black lives

You forgot to add “Democrat run cities”. There fixed it for you.

Any New York City

Mares everyday in those hell holes.

BLM only if the perp is white. Blacks slaughtering blacks? Yawn. No money to be made off that.

Thank me

Color me shocked!!!

Just another typical weekend on Chicago’s West and Southside. Really a shame, innocent kids dying left and right, all because of the gang violence. The root of all evil is money. Until the black market drug profits are squelched, it won’t stop.

Defund to Police You wouldn’t know what to do!

Where is black lives matter? Do they actively speak out against this?

72 in Chicago. At least 20 in Atlanta. What ails this nation's violence epidemic is deeper than any statues or monuments. And it's deeper than our policing. End this consciousness of violence. ShareLove

Blm ?

Summer of Love...

So...where's the Protests? How about the 41 people shot in NYC ? 🦗🦗

Where’s the protest

But we don’t need any reconsideration of gun laws. There should be a coffin tax added to the purchase price of all firearms to provide for funeral expenses of victims of senseless gun violence.

Zero, the number of athletes who will have their names written on their sneakers.

At least 72 people were shot in Chicago since early Friday morning -- 15 fatally -- including a 7-year-old girl who was visiting her grandmother on the holiday, according to police.

We gonna riot?

Sad

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