Labor Day 2022 Weekend Violence Wrap-Up
While we here at the Chicago Journal do not call Labor Day the end of summer, there's no doubt that it serves as the unofficial seasonal bookend for many in the city and surrounding area. The kids have gone back to school by now, after all. Football is starting and baseball is going into its final stretch. And the trixies have begun to dream about apple cider brown sugar donuts and pumpkin spice lattes and tell everyone about it on social media.
And even if we're likely to have some significant heat coming for another month or so, historically, Labor Day weekend is when the weekend violence statistics begin to take the long walk down to the bitter winter weather numbers.
It's been a helluva summer - although that's probably not the right verb to describe it...
Delightful? Pleasing, maybe? Blissful?
Hmm. No, none of those verbs are nearly triumphant enough to really express how pure and happy our days and nights in Chicago are under this leadership.
Oh well. The perfect word will come. Maybe the statheads over at HeyJackass.com might have an idea?
The final totals for Labor Day Weekend were 14 killed, 48 wounded in violence across the city from Friday, September 2 @ Noon through Tuesday, September 6 @ 6:00 a.m.
The weekend started off with a hurry as the first two shooting incidents Friday afternoon were homicides.
The first happened around 12:50 p.m. when a man was found with a gunshot wound to his back in a gangway near the 8300 block of S. Colfax in the South Chicago neighborhood. He was pronounced dead on scene.
The second happened shortly after 2:00 p.m. on the 5000 block of W. Gladys in the Austin neighborhood. There, a 35-year-old man was shot in the torso & chin. He was originally listed in critical condition but later died from his injuries.
Shortly after midnight Saturday, gunfire erupted around a man on the Near North Side near the old Cabrini-Green homes.
More than 30 rounds were fired to kill a man in Old Town overnight. He was awaiting sentencing on federal gun charges.https://t.co/66V134a417
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) September 3, 2022
Early Saturday morning, a woman stabbed a man to death during a domestic dispute in South Shore. We wrote about it here:
A woman is in custody after authorities said she stabbed a man to death during a domestic dispute on the city's south side early this morning.#ChicagoScanner #Chicago https://t.co/61qrPpslGt
— Chicago Journal (@chicagojournal) September 3, 2022
Fortunately, this 54-year-old woman wasn't killed for the mistake of enjoying a Saturday evening in the West Loop:
A carjacker dragged a woman with her car and stole her Shih Tzu in the West Loop on Saturday evening. CPD said the woman was in serious condition, but she is recovering.https://t.co/r57TDreJDY
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) September 4, 2022
A man was killed five minutes into his 40th birthday on Sunday morning. His friend was also injured in the shooting that happened downtown in the Loop.
PHOTOS: Chicago police work the scene where two men 37 and 40-years-old were shot, in the 200 block of South Wabash Avenue, in The Loop neighborhood, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times #Chicago #ChicagoScanner pic.twitter.com/2m7vNc2xN3
— Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere (@TylerLaRiviere) September 4, 2022
You can learn some subtle yet interesting things about life in this city from the smaller stories, too. Like this one, about a 13-year-old shot early Sunday at about 1:30 in the morning.
According to statistics provided by @w_h_thompson, as of September 1, 2022, there have been 260 kids 17-and-under struck by gunfire so far this year, and 42 have died.#ChicagoScanner #Chicago https://t.co/nmqZ62HtHB
— Chicago Journal (@chicagojournal) September 4, 2022
Followed by a man mowed down by a car on the city's near west side a few hours later:
Police are investigating the hit-and-run death of a man on the Near West Side this morning as a homicide, authorities said Sunday afternoon.#ChicagoScanner #Chicago https://t.co/srnIsrURdS
— Chicago Journal (@chicagojournal) September 4, 2022
Of course, this city can no longer make it through a long weekend without a mass shooting, by definition. You can read about the one that happened Sunday evening here:
Four young men were shot in the South Chicago neighborhood Sunday evening and two in that group have died from their injuries, authorities said.#chicago https://t.co/9RGqZCJNet
— Chicago Journal (@chicagojournal) September 5, 2022
Even more strange, a call of shots fired at a party in a parking garage at the old CME downtown? Sure, it's Labor Day weekend and this is Chicago.
Around 11:30 p.m. last night, police received an unusual call of shots fired while people were holding a party in a parking garage in the Loop neighborhood.#Chicago https://t.co/cAJhnpcaZN
— Chicago Journal (@chicagojournal) September 5, 2022
Chicago Police have been struggling to contain street drag racing though after the most recent stunts, they've begun to use different tools to identify the vehicles:
Chicago Police impound 7 cars, identify 44 more connected to illegal street racing https://t.co/5NycOfpBPu pic.twitter.com/5Wpr7sXg3d
— CBS Chicago (@cbschicago) September 4, 2022
The big story of the Labor Day weekend happend the morning of Labor Day itself. A security guard for a Greektown cannabis dispensary shot and killed a man who attacked him with an axe.
A security guard for a Greektown cannabis dispensary shot and killed a man who attacked him with an axe this morning, police say. The alleged attacker had a warrant out for his arrest for a pending armed assault case.https://t.co/JYrVllrZ3X
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) September 5, 2022
As with the 54-year-old woman above, this woman in Lakeview was guilty of enjoying her Labor Day off afternoon:
ICYMI: Just in: Video shows three men attacking and robbing a woman in Lakeview this afternoon.https://t.co/JDNIoPTBSW
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) September 6, 2022
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