Magnificent Mile shooting | |
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Location | 800 North State Street, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Date | May 19, 2022 10:40 – c. 11:30 p.m. (CDT; UTC−05:00) |
Attack type | Mass shooting |
Weapon | Glock 19 [1] [2] |
Deaths | 2 [3] |
Injured | 8 [4] |
Perpetrator | Jaylun Sanders [1] |
On May 19, 2022, a mass shooting occurred in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in the city's Magnificent Mile shopping district, near Michigan Avenue. [4] Two people were killed, and eight others were injured. [5] The accused perpetrator, Jaylun Sanders, was taken into custody by Chicago police.
The shooting occurred at about 10:40 p.m. CDT (UTC−05:00), near a McDonald's establishment on the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago. [5] [6] The incident occurred a few blocks from the city's Magnificent Mile shopping district. The shooting happened as a result of an altercation outside the McDonald's restaurant. [5] The cause of the altercation is not yet known; however it was described as "personal" by detectives. [7] [3] The shooting was triggered when police officers, who were near the area noticed two groups engaging in a fight. [3]
After the shooting, the suspect fled and caused a chase between police officials to the Chicago station of the city's Red Line. [6] Amid the chase, a woman fell onto the tracks and was electrocuted at the State Street subway. [8] Passengers from this station were evacuated at around 11:30 p.m., an hour after the shooting. [9]
Several of the victims were hospitalized at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. [10] All wounded victims were reported under serious condition. [6]
The shooting was significant because it happened a week after a shooting in downtown Chicago's Millennium Park where a teen was shot and killed and led the city to enforce a curfew for young people. [5]
Three days after the shooting, 21-year-old Chicago native Jaylun Sanders was named by Cook County prosecutors as the perpetrator of the shooting. [1] The weapon used was a Glock 19 handgun that Sanders had purchased from a relative in Indiana. [1] The Glock was also outfitted with a device which allows full auto fire. [11]
Two people were killed in the shooting, [8] one of the victims being 30-year-old Antonio Wade. [10] Wade was one of the individuals involved in the altercation that led to the shooting. [10] The incident was recorded by several cell phones nearby the crime scene. [6] The second victim was a 31-year-old male, who was hospitalized at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, and was shot in the back of the head. [12]
In the aftermath of the shooting, a suspect was arrested by police on May 20, 2022. [6] Another person was arrested for obstructing the officers from making an arrest at the scene. [3] In response to the shooting, Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the shooting "an outrageous act of violence" and announced that the city would increase police presence near the area of the shooting. [6] The Chicago Tribune reported that during the shooting, a fight had happened between a witness and police officials. [12] In June, a juvenile was arrested in connection with the shooting after turning himself in to the police. [13]
Lightfoot and Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department David Brown blamed the shooting on the parents of the suspects. [12]
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