Chicago shooting: Lightfoot, prosecutor Foxx exchange war of words over no charges filed in gang gunfight
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is lashing out at Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx for her decision not to press charges in a deadly daylight neighborhood shootout between rival gang members.
One person was killed and five others were taken into custody and later released in connection to the shootout that happened in the Austin neighborhood Friday on the city’s West Side. Three gang members began shooting into a single-family home in broad daylight in an effort to draw out members of an opposing gang faction. Three individuals inside returned fire, killing one of the offenders outside.
More than 70 rounds of shells were recovered from the shooting captured by a city camera, and a set of uniformed officers in a marked squad car were also on the scene within a short period of time and witnessed the activity, Lightfoot, as well as five alderman, in a letter obtained by Fox 32, implored Foxx to reconsider felony charges, like attempted murder, at least against the two surviving initial aggressors.
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