Although the increase in murders slowed from 2020, last year was the deadliest since the mid-1990s. Mayor Lightfoot and her City Council critics are at odds about how to reduce the bloodshed going forward.
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Rapper Dajon Gater, 15, gunned down over most deadly weekend in Chicago this year
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Dajon Gater was a precocious student of the after-school program Guitars over Guns. Dajon, 15, was killed in a shooting last Friday in Lawndale. | Andre Daniels
CHICAGO - Even in grade school, Dajon Gater had clear musical talent.
The normally quiet 15-year-old would transform himself while performing in the after-school program Guitars over Guns. He was a really chill, laid-back guy. And he would get on stage and turn into the coolest, smoothest dude, said his mentor Andre Daniels. His voice was always really laid back, but then he’d turn on the swag, said Daniels, who performs as Add-2 and helped run the organization’s rap program in Bronzeville in 2017 and 2018.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D). (Getty Images)
The Sun-Times further reported, On Saturday night, a man was killed and two others wounded in a shooting in Washington Park. Johnnie Williams, 46, was with two others on the sidewalk in the 5500 block of South Michigan Avenue when people in a gray Jeep and a blue Acura opened fire about 7:30 p.m.
Two men were shot dead on Saturday. One of the men, 24-year-old Haniff Collins, was shot in his head, neck, chest and leg, police said. He was taken to Loretto Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said. The second man, 29-year-old Derrick McCampbell, died after being shot in the chest, torso and arm, said