Chicago Gun Violence Spikes and Increasingly Finds the Youngest Victims

Posted on AllSides July 6th, 2020
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As Yasmin Miller drove home from a laundromat in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood last weekend, a gunman in another car peppered her red Hyundai sedan with bullets, grazing her head and striking her son, Sincere Gaston, in the chest. Sincere died in his car seat. He was 20 months old.

On June 20, a man fired gunshots through the back of a dark blue SUV, wounding the 27-year-old man driving and hitting his stepson, Mekhi James, in the back, killing him. Mekhi was three.

Two girls, both aged three, were hospitalized...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/us/chicago-shootings.html

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