34 Shot, 9 Fatally, over Weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago

On August 2, 2020, Breitbart News reported 21 people had been shot, six fatally, Friday through Saturday afternoon alone.

On Monday morning the Chicago Sun-Times reported the weekend concluded with at least 34 shot, nine fatally.

NBC5 reported the fatal shootings began with someone opening fire shortly after 6 p.m. Friday on a nine-year-old boy who was playing in a parking lot. The boy was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at the hospital.

The Sun-Times reported the nine-year-old’s name was Janari Ricks.

The last fatal shooting of the weekend was a drive-by shooting that occurred just before 1 p.m. Sunday. Thirty-eight-year-old Allen Britten was outside “standing in the 6400 block of South Green Street” when a vehicle pulled up and an occupant opened fire.