Chicago mayor, top cop plead for answers in 4-year-old's shooting death, as weekend sees more violence

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the city's top cop on Saturday demanded answers to the still-unsolved shooting of a 4-year-old boy who was killed while getting his hair braided on Labor Day weekend.

"These murders don’t happen in isolation, they happen and people know," Lightfoot said. "Too much bloodshed has happened in our streets, and we cannot stand silently while that happens, not while babies are being taken … So I’m urging and asking and pleading for people with information about MJ’s case and the other 34 unsolved child murders in our city to come forward."

Moultry’s mother, Angela Gregg, has been canvassing the area every Saturday knocking on the doors of residents' homes and asking for anyone with information in her son’s killing to come forward.

"I stand here with the families, with other mothers who have had their children slain in this city. It’s unreal what’s happening to our children here," said Gregg, who also attended the press conference. "We’re coming to you as mothers, as fathers, as parents, as sisters, as brothers asking you to help us seek justice for my son, MJ … do the right thing."