8 Feb 2021
At least 23 people were shot, three fatally, over the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
On Sunday, Breitbart News noted 14 people were shot, one fatally, Friday through Saturday alone. That one fatality occurred when shots rang out early Saturday morning at Indian Lakes Hotel in Bloomingdale, a Chicago-area community.
NBC 5 quoted Bloomingdale Public Safety Director Frank Giammarese saying, “It appears that there were a couple of different groups attending different events at the hotel…[when] something transpired and that’s when the shooting took place, mostly in the hallways at the hotel.”
By Monday morning, ABC 7 /
Chicago Sun-Timesreported the total number of weekend shooting victims had risen to 23, with two more fatalities.
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Chicago rapper FBG Duck was shot and killed last year, and now it’s been reported that his affiliate BCR Meezle was killed in a shooting on Saturday.
The
Chicago Sun Times reports that Meezle, who is said to be Duck’s cousin, was at a party at the Indian Lakes Hotel in Bloomingdale, Illinois when the shooting went down. He was taken to the St. Alexius Medical Center Emergency Room when he was shot, and was pronounced dead shortly after arriving. Meezle, real name James McGill, was 27.
“There was some type of incident that transpired from either one person from one group and one person to another but it appears that there were a couple of different groups attending different events at the hotel, said Bloomingdale s Public Safety Director Frank Giammarese. I don’t know if it’s a party, I don’t have all those details, but it was a couple of groups of people and something transpired and that’s when the shooting took place, mostly i
One dead, several injured in shooting at suburban Chicago hotel The shooting occurred during some type of large get-together among guests at the Indian Lakes Hotel in Bloomingdale, according to Bloomingdale Public Safety Director Frank Giammarese The Associated Press February 07, 2021 11:21:58 IST Police investigate the scene of a shooting at the Indian Lakes Hotel on Saturday, 6 February , 2021 in Bloomingdale, Ill. Police say one person was killed and several others were injured in a shooting at the hotel in the Chicago suburb. AP
Bloomingdale: A shooting early Saturday during a large gathering at a suburban Chicago hotel left one man dead and several other people wounded, police said.
February 06, 2021 - 8:09 PM
Calls grow for US to rely on rapid tests to fight pandemic
WASHINGTON (AP) â When a Halloween party sparked a COVID-19 outbreak at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, school officials conducted rapid screening on more than 1,000 students in a week, including many who didnât have symptoms.
Although such asymptomatic screening isnât approved by regulators and the 15-minute tests arenât as sensitive as the genetic one that can take days to yield results, the testing director at the historically Black college credits the approach with quickly containing the infections and allowing the campus to remain open.