West Side Chicago community holds vigil after 2 mass shootings in 1 day
CHICAGO -- It was a deadly Easter weekend in the city of Chicago – with at least six people killed and more than two dozen hurt in shootings around the city.This included two mass shootings that transpired in the West Side's Austin neighborhood alone. On Tuesday night, community and police leaders rallied for peace.The community came together because they can't allow two mass shootings to happen hours apart and accept it as the norm.
Murphy was killed, and three others – ages 17, 19, and 20 – were rushed to emergency rooms with gunshot wounds.In broad daylight the same Easter Sunday at 2:50 p.m., there was another mass shooting in the neighborhood – about half a mile north and a mile east. Four people – all young men or teenage boys - were on the sidewalk in the 400 block of North Lavergne Avenue, near Ferdinand Street, when a vehicle pulled up and two people got out and opened fire.A 16-year-old boy died.
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