CHICAGO (WLS) — A teen has been charged within the Saturday night time taking pictures demise of a 16-year-old boy close to “the Bean,” Chicago police mentioned.
The boy killed was within the 200-block of East Randolph Avenue when he was shot within the chest at about 7: 30 p.m., CPD mentioned. He was taken to Lurie Youngsters’s Hospital, the place he was pronounced useless, police mentioned.
The Prepare dinner County Medical Examiner’s Workplace recognized him as Seandell Holliday of Chicago.
At the very least two individuals of curiosity had been taken in for questioning and at the least two weapons had been recovered, police mentioned Saturday.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested within the 100 block of South Michigan Avenue moments after he allegedly shot Holliday, police mentioned Sunday. He has been charged with second-degree homicide, amongst different prices.
On Sunday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot introduced a curfew for unaccompanied minors.
Efficient instantly, unaccompanied minors usually are not allowed in Millennium Park after 6: 00 p.m. from Thursday by way of Sunday, Lightfoot mentioned in a press release.
“We, as a Metropolis, cannot permit any of our public areas to change into platforms for hazard. Anybody coming into our public areas ought to anticipate to take pleasure in them peacefully and should respect and exhibit fundamental group norms of decency. We merely is not going to settle for something much less,” Lightfoot mentioned, partially. “I’m calling on all mother and father, guardians, and caring adults to step up at this second and do no matter it takes to stop a tragedy like this from taking place once more and to encourage applicable conduct when our younger individuals collect wherever on this nice Metropolis of ours.”
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Two individuals had been shot within the Loop Saturday night time after Holliday’s taking pictures demise, Chicago police mentioned.
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Simply after 11: 40 p.m., an 18- to 20-year-old man and an 18-year-old man had been strolling within the 300-block of South State Avenue when two boys shot into the group, police mentioned.
The person whose age is unknown was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in vital situation with gunshot wounds to the neck and chest. The 18-year-old was taken to Stroger Hospital in truthful situation with a gunshot wound to the left hand. Two boys are being questioned, and Space Three detectives are investigating.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued a press release in response to the primary Loop taking pictures.
“This mindless lack of life is totally unacceptable. Tonight, a mom is grief-stricken, mourning the lack of her baby and looking for solutions. My coronary heart is breaking for the mom as she grieves this unspeakable loss,” Lightfoot mentioned, partially. “In fact, younger persons are welcome in every single place in our metropolis, however group norms require respect for one another, individuals’s property, and the sanctity of life. Something much less merely is not going to be tolerated.” Police mentioned a whole bunch of younger individuals had been at Millennium Park Saturday night time and commenced flooding surrounding streets. Officers had been known as in to clear the park.
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Twenty-six kids and 4 adults had been arrested in reference to the incident, Chicago police mentioned. There have been 5 gun arrests and 7 weapons recovered.
Two officers had been additionally injured.
Police, who in latest weeks mentioned they might be cancelling officers days off, and sending extra assets downtown, had been compelled to close down streets surrounding the park.
Superintendent David Brown at this time mentioned the police division’s precedence proper now’s making Millennium Park secure, however admitted that there’s a chance of displacement to different downtown areas. These giant teams of younger individuals look like drawn downtown on weekends, not by probability, however because of coordinated efforts to get them there born on social media, he mentioned.
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“That is completely different,” Brown mentioned. “Our intelligence tells us there are teams convening. These younger individuals… we have to cope with the again finish of how this will get began.”
Too many individuals and households have been damage by mindless gun violence in our metropolis. Too many weapons are making their approach into the palms of these with too little respect for the sanctity of life. It shouldn’t be regular to see younger lives and immense potential being reduce brief. pic.twitter.com/E6eEgYohEf
— Chicago Police Superintendent David O. Brown (@ChiefDavidBrown) Could 15, 2022ABC7 spoke with a teen who mentioned these gatherings are known as “traits.” That is when giant crowds of younger individuals meet up at a location, he mentioned, to “have enjoyable.”
“I am gonna meet a bunch of children this morning who’ve come from all around the world on the hostel. I am gonna have to inform them extra than simply ‘do not take your cellphone out on the Crimson Line. Now I am gonna have to inform them to concentrate on a regular basis. It did not used to occur within the neighborhoods that we normally stroll in. It appears now so random,” mentioned Paul Nyenhuis, who was at Millennium Park on Saturday night time. “Who do these children go residence to at night time!? Who’re their mother and father!?”
Nyenhuis mentioned he left as officers tried to deliver calm to the Loop, moments earlier than gunfire was heard close to the Bean.
“They had been simply standing, speaking randomly… And unexpectedly, they began taking pictures,” mentioned Zarnab Saleem, a witness. “It is going uncontrolled, I might say. On a regular basis I hear this, however this time I noticed it and I felt it. It is so scary!”
Common guests to the park have been on edge.
“It is just a bit iffy,” mentioned Eric Pimentel. “50/50 probability the place I might be secure or not secure.”
Police haven’t but offered particulars on what the method might be to establish unaccompanied minors in Millennium Park.
The American Civil Liberties Union launched a press release saying the curfew might result in pointless stops and arrests.
“The Mayor’s announcement means that our Metropolis’s showcase park shouldn’t be out there for all residents of Chicago. Curfews and bans create group culpability for all younger individuals – whether or not they’re there to benefit from the sights and sounds of downtown or one thing else. The obscure description – counting on an undefined ‘accountable grownup’ – permitting younger individuals to be current within the park and the promise of strict enforcement will lead to pointless stops and arrests and additional pressure relations between CPD and younger individuals of shade. We’ll proceed to watch this example carefully,” the ACLU mentioned in a press release.
Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton tweeted in regards to the state of affairs, calling for an finish to gun violence.
This has to cease.
Millennium Park in Chicago.
A grocery retailer in Buffalo—motivated by racism and hate.
A flea market in Houston.
Now a church in Laguna Woods.
Sufficient is sufficient. We should do every little thing we are able to to #EndGunViolence.
— Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton (@LtGovStratton) Could 15, 2022Lightfoot’s full assertion on new curfew:
“Tragically, an adolescent – a teen – misplaced his life final night time in Millennium Park. I think an awesome majority of the youth who had been within the Park had been there to have an excellent time and luxuriate in a summer time night. However the scene devolved into one in every of chaos and pointless violence.
We, as a Metropolis, cannot permit any of our public areas to change into platforms for hazard. Anybody coming into our public areas ought to anticipate to take pleasure in them peacefully and should respect and exhibit fundamental group norms of decency. We merely is not going to settle for something much less.
So, efficient instantly, from Thursday by way of Sunday, unaccompanied minors usually are not allowed in Millennium Park after 6: 00 pm. This new coverage might be strictly enforced and violations might be handled swiftly. All of our residents and guests underneath the age of 18 are welcome on the Park throughout the night hours so long as they’re accompanied by at the least one accountable grownup.
We’ll associate with Chicago Public Faculties and our different native faculty techniques to totally clarify this new coverage to college students, in addition to to encourage guardians to make sure that their kids are conducting themselves appropriately and safely always.
I’m additionally calling upon the Chicago Police Division to work with our federal companions to speed up gun traces for all firearms discovered within the palms of minors and to swiftly deliver prison prices in opposition to any grownup who has offered a firearm to an individual underneath the age of 18.
As a Metropolis, we should be sure that our younger individuals have secure areas to congregate and that in these areas they’re peaceable and truly secure. I’m calling on all mother and father, guardians, and caring adults to step up at this second and do no matter it takes to stop a tragedy like this from taking place once more and to encourage applicable conduct when our younger individuals collect wherever on this nice Metropolis of ours. All of us should mannequin and implement the respect and peace we anticipate from our younger individuals always.”
Lightfoot’s full assertion on lethal Millennium Park taking pictures:
“Earlier this night, a 16-year-old was tragically killed close to Millennium Park. This mindless lack of life is totally unacceptable. Tonight, a mom is grief-stricken, mourning the lack of her baby and looking for solutions. My coronary heart is breaking for the mom as she grieves this unspeakable loss.
“In fact, younger persons are welcome in every single place in our metropolis, however group norms require respect for one another, individuals’s property, and the sanctity of life. Something much less merely is not going to be tolerated. We should even have zero tolerance for younger individuals carrying firearms or settling petty disputes with acts of violence. All of us should condemn this conduct within the strongest phrases attainable and proceed to take motion in opposition to anybody who violates these fundamental group norms. And I proceed to name upon mother and father and guardians to step up, to make sure that your kids perceive fundamental values of respect, and that you simply take accountability for figuring out always the place your kids are and who they’re with.
“We might be taking extra actions to cease this lawlessness and can share particulars as quickly as attainable on what extra measures we might be taking to assist stop occasions like this from taking place sooner or later.”
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