No marches for peace and justice unless the shooting is done by a cop.
Via Chicago Tribune:
The Memorial Day weekend began in Chicago with a 15-year-old girl shot dead on Lake Shore Drive, a man in his 20s killed in front of his mother’s house on the Southwest Side and another young man gunned down inside a gas station on the Northwest Side.
As of Saturday morning, the toll from weekend violence stood at three dead and 12 wounded during a span of eight hours, between 9:25 p.m. Friday and 5:15 a.m. Saturday. Last year, 12 people were killed and 44 people were wounded over the holiday weekend.
The girl, Veronica Lopez, was riding in a Jeep with a 28-year-old man about 1:30 a.m. when someone in a black Nissan car pulled up and started shooting, police said. Lopez was hit several times and the man was grazed in the head and shot through the arm, police said.
The man drove to Presence St. Joseph Hospital and the girl was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 2:59 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.[…]
The girl’s mother made a brief stop Saturday afternoon at the family’s home above a storefront in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood. Diana Mercado said she had planned to move her family to Florida soon.
“We were planning on leaving Chicago in a year because of this,” she wept and she shared embraces with relatives and a family friend. “Now they took my baby.”
The girl was a freshman at North-Grand High School, her mother said. Diana Mercado said little about the man her daughter was with during the shooting, other than that he was a friend.
“My baby was not even in a gang to be killed,” she said. “I just loved my daughter, and I miss everything about her.”
Asked about her daughter’s killer, Mercado said she hoped the shooter would be caught.
“I wish he would have thought about it before he decided to use that gun,” she said.
The family friend, Niko Quintero, said he has little hope Chicago’s gun violence will cease.
“There’s not really much you can do,” he said.
The wounded man with Lopez is not a family member, according to Holmes.
The first homicide of the weekend happened three hours earlier, about 11:20 p.m., in the 3700 block of West 75th Place, police said. Someone on foot shot a 25-year-old man who was sitting in a parked car, police said. The car rolled east a little and came to rest in front of the house of the man’s mother, according to neighbors and police.