Lightfoot's Summer of Joy begins in Chicago: 10 dead and at least 42 wounded, two mass shootings

Last month Chicago's embattled mayor, Lori Lightfoot, declared that the summer of 2022 would be a "Summer of Joy."

It's already off to a bad start.

From Fox Chicago:

Chicago experienced its most violent Memorial Day weekend in five years — 10 killed, 42 wounded — despite stepped up police patrols and a focus on neighborhood programs that city officials hoped would provide peaceful alternatives.

About half of those shot were on the West Side, most of them in a single police district, the 11th, where there were two mass shootings on Sunday. On the South Side, at least 14 people were shot. And downtown, where there has been a spike in shootings all year, four people were hit by gunfire. 

The weekend was the most violent since 2017, when seven people were killed and 45 people were wounded, according to Chicago police data. The year before, 69 people had been shot over the long holiday weekend.

This past weekend’s toll is sharply higher than last year, when three people were killed and 34 others were wounded.

One of those mass shootings wounded five people, including a 16-year-old girl, in West Garfield Park, at a gathering marking the anniversary of the murder of an 18-year-old. In the other mass shooting, a man was killed and four others were wounded in Humboldt Park.