At least 53 people have been shot, five of them fatally, as of Monday morning on Labor Day Weekend 2025 in Chicago.
The weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred at 11:56 p.m. Friday, according to ABC 7, leaving a 25-year-old woman dead.
Nearly 12 hours later, at 11:01 a.m. Saturday, a 29-year-old man was shot to death in a drive-by incident. The man and a friend were standing outside “in the 500-block of North Sawyer” when the shooting occurred.
At 7:46 p.m. a 43-year-old woman “in the 900-block of E. 131st Street” was killed when five men walked up to her and began shooting.
Sunday at 1:39 a.m. three men “in the 1900 block of W. 17th Street” were shot and one of them, a 46-year-old, succumbed to his wounds.
At 2:52 a.m. Sunday a 33-year-old man was shot in the head and killed during an argument.
Chicago and Baltimore both should implement the bullet exchange program, turn a spent case in and get a fresh loaded round. The problem will slowly disappear.
Is it ironic that so many perps and victims were unemployed on this day, the annual celebration of working people?