(Chicago IL) Over the weekend 6 children were killed in shootings in the past nine hours, a 8-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl were the youngest. The pace of gun violence in the city continues to be higher than last year’s record level.
This year around 91 children 15 years of age and younger have been wounded so far, 11 of them fatally. That’s seven more than the same time last year when 84 children had been shot, 12 deadly .