‘TRAUMATIZED CITY’: More Than 50 People Shot In Chicago During Christmas Holiday

City on track to top murder toll of New York and Los Angeles combined. 

By Mary Papenfuss

Chicago continued its horrifying parade of violence over the Christmas holiday with 57 shootings and at least 12 dead.

Several surviving victims were seriously or critically injured and battling for their lives, the Chicago Tribune reported.

The gun violence from Friday to Monday evening surpassed the steep shooting tally over the holiday last year, when 30 people were shot and six died.

Seven people were shot in a single incident on Sunday after a man emerged from an alley and opened fire on a family party at a home in the city’s crime-wracked East Chatham neighborhood, CBS Chicago reported. 

When the shooting finally stopped, James Gill, 18, lay dead with a bullet to the head. His 21-year-old brother, Roy Gill, died later at a local hospital. The shooter escaped.

One 40-year-old man was cut down by multiple bullets outside the Apostolic Labor of Love Church; he later died at the hospital. 

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Source: The Huffington Post