Chicago – For the second time this week, a shooting victim was found outside in the west side of the west side represented by ALD. Monique Scott (24th). And, just like the first victim, nobody called 911 to report the gunfire that injured her. Instead, she received help from a passer -by who found her near the basketball courts in Park 500.
Just like the vast majority of her colleagues from the city council, Scott insisted on Mayor Brandon Johnson to keep the Shotspotter -rifle -fire detection system active because the company’s contract was approaching last September. Despite the opposition of Scott, 32 other aldermen, his police inspector, and according to a poll, Johnson decided to end more than 70% of the inhabitants of the city.
The basketball courts in Park 500 and the surrounding neighborhood were followed by the Scottish Potter until he did.
The police received a call from 911 on Thursday around 9.23 pm about a person in the head in the 3800 block of West Polk. They found the 28-year-old victim, who in a reasonable state to the Mt. Sinai Hospital was brought. An officer said they also found a ball fragment in the vicinity of the intersection of Springfield and Lexington, the street in the park.
The woman told the police that she was sitting on the sidewalk when she heard gunfire and felt pain, according to a statement from CPD media.
During the weekend, 13-year-old Amari Williams did not return home as expected on Sunday evening. His mother reported him missing. CPD officers found Amari’s body in the back garden of a house in the 1500 block of South Koldare around 2:10 am that he was shot, probably somewhere between 5 pm and 7 pm the night before.
If the nearby shot spotters had still been active, the police would have been informed of the gunfire that killed him and the location where the shots were fired. But the shot spotters were not active and Amari lay a shot and undiscovered hours undiscovered.
“If we had a shot spotter or a kind of tool, we could have known where we could find this child, and he had just left a back garden, because we don’t know how long,” ” Scott told CBS2.
If we had shotspotter … yes.
From 12:01 pm on September 23, 2024, Chicago terminated his relationship with Shotspotter, a gunfire detection system that was used in 12 of the most of the city implemented by violence. Mayor Brandon Johnson stubbornly refused to reconsider his decision to dismantle the Schotspotter, although the vast majority of aldermen, many citizens, proponents of the victim and his selected police -superintendent requested that it was present.
This reporting series, called “Brandon’s Bodies”, wants to document matters of shooting victims and police investigations that may have benefited from shot detection technology.
The general criteria for inclusion are a Scottish victim that is found outside at a location that was previously operated by the Scottish Potter with either no accompanying 911 calls on gunfire or (2) calling on gunfire in a general area that did not lead to the timely location of the victim.
