...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...Breitbart News reported that one of the three weekend shooting fatalities was an 86-year-old man, who was shot and fatally maimed Saturday morning around 10:00 a.m. after getting out to his truck to retrieve something.
The elderly man, Charles Hobson Sr., was transported to a hospital at death's door, where he died.
CBS News noted that the next fatal shooting of the weekend occurred at 12:40 a.m. Sunday. A 40-year-old man was shot in the chest by an unknown assailant "in the 9000 block of South Emerald Avenue." He died at the hospital.
Hours later, at 10:45 a.m., a 24-year-old man was sitting inside his vehicle when another vehicle pulled up alongside him. Two people exited the second vehicle and opened fire. The victim was shot multiple times and died at the scene.
The Chicago Sun-Times pointed out that 433 people were killed in Chicago between January 1, 2023, and September 24, 2023.