CHICAGO, May 16 (Xinhua) — Chicago, the third most populous metropolis within the United States, will tighten its weekend curfew for minors after a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed Saturday night, Chicago Tribune reported Monday.
Seandell Holliday, 16, was shot and killed close to “The Bean” in Millennium Park in downtown Chicago simply earlier than 7:30 p.m. Saturday. A 17-year-old has been charged as grownup with second-degree homicide.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot introduced on Sunday that town is limiting night and nighttime entry to Millennium Park and can permit minors within the park after 6 p.m. on Thursdays via Sundays provided that they’re accompanied by an grownup.
Many younger individuals are on the lookout for house “to hang around” and are uninterested in being indoors, and that’s comprehensible, the native newspaper quoted Lightfoot as saying on Monday. But she lamented the massive, chaotic scene over the weekend the place massive crowds of youngsters flooded downtown, stopping site visitors and leaping on automobiles.
For that motive, town is taking steps to stop “any additional tragedies taking place,” Lightfoot stated.
The mayor famous that town has had a curfew for minors for a few years. She simply moved it up from 11 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The determination met with opposition from racial justice advocates and the American Civil Liberties Union, and provoked fierce criticism from residents who stated town was making downtown inhospitable to residents from the South and West sides.
As summer season comes, violence and crime are growing in Chicago. Chicago police stated 5 individuals had been killed and 28 others had been injured in 28 separate shootings up to now weekend.
