At least one person was killed and 22 were injured in a shooting during a Juneteenth celebration in Illinois over the weekend.
The shooting took place in a parking lot in Willowbrook, Illinois, roughly 21 miles west of Chicago, in the early morning hours of June 18.
According to the DuPage County Sheriff’s Office, a large group of people gathered for the Juneteenth celebration at about 6 pm. on June 17, with police present at the site to monitor the event. At 12:25 a.m., the officers were called away to respond to another fight nearby.
“As deputies responded, they heard gunshots and immediately returned to the scene of the gathering,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement, adding that an “unknown number of suspects fired multiple rounds from multiple weapons into the crowd.”…