reporter: so we ve talked to people in the community who are very upset about this. reverends who walked out there and trying to help change things here. but you think about this 161 people killed in 151 days. people are pointing to the gun violence and asking for help and asking when this will end. wow. ryan young, thanks so much for joining us. now on sunday amari brown s family held a vigil and called on the boy s killer to turn themselves into police. listen. you might as well turn yourself in because this 7-year-old our family member did nothing to you. all of you all will be back out here next week on another corner filming the same thing from somebody else saying exactly what i m saying. so i m tired of doing news conferences and tired of listening to them and tired of talking about them. until we make a better decision as a community and as a city this is all that s going to happen. i want to bring in someone who knows this community well. pastor corey brooks of the n
killed. now everyone here is starting to talk about the violence that seems to happen all the time not just during this holiday weekend but throughout the weeks here in chicago where violent gun violence is something people talk about. the fact that every hour since friday they have been able to get an illegal gun off the street shows the hard work of the police department but even the police department is saying they need more help from the community because obviously just getting the guns off the street and arresting people is not doing enough when you have gang violence spread throughout the city and, of course it s something the superintendent talked about very passionately just yesterday. last night 7-year-old amari brown was the unintended victim of a bullet that was meant for his father. his father is a ranking gang member with 45 previous arrests who is not cooperating with this investigation. he has had numerous and frequent encounters with the police, and as i said at this
the, quote, broken system. we need some help here, folks. we have to fix this broken system. if you think putting more cops on the street would make a difference then take a look at the fact that we put a third more man power on the street for this weekend. what s the result? we re getting more guns. well that s great. it s not stopping the violence and it s not going to stop the violence until criminals are held accountable and something is done to stem the flow of these guns into our city. let s bring in cnn s ryan young from chicago. such a heartbreaking story here ryan. reporter: a heartbreaking story. people are still reacting to it. we just had a woman stop by our live shot. when we told her the numbers she had that reaction when is this going to stop? that s the question so many people are asking. we have to focus on the 7-year-old. amari brown. getting ready for the fireworks, but sadly and unfortunately he was shot in the chest and he was