Seventy-three people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, with 10 murders recorded, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) said Monday. Approximately 45 shootings took place between Aug. 6 at 6 p.m. and Aug. 8 at 11:59 p.m., police officials in the city said. The shootings left 63 injured and 10 dead in the third-largest city in the United States. Nine other shootings took place on Friday before 6 p.m. in the violence-riddled city, according to incident reports compiled by the CPD. In one incident, a 29-year-old female police officer identified as Ella French was gunned down during a traffic stop on Saturday. A second officer was left injured. It was the first time since 2018 that a Chicago officer was fatally shot in the line of duty. “We have a common enemy: it’s the guns and the gangs,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat, told a press conference on Sunday. …
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