Chicago Surpasses 600 Homicides This Year
(Chicago, IL) — Chicago owns a gruesome milestone in relation to its murder rate. The city has recorded its 600th homicide this year, which outdistances the 486 from all of last year. Most of this year’s victims died of gunshot wounds and another 28 were stabbed to death. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson blames the spike in city gun violence on “repeat gun offenders.”
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