{"id":287265,"date":"2016-12-25T22:27:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T21:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/27-shot-7-fatally-over-christmas-weekend-in-chicago\/"},"modified":"2016-12-25T22:27:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T21:27:55","slug":"27-shot-7-fatally-over-christmas-weekend-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/27-shot-7-fatally-over-christmas-weekend-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"27 shot, 7 fatally, over Christmas weekend in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Twenty-seven people have been shot in Chicago over the Christmas weekend, seven of whom have succumbed to their wounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The figure was recorded in a 48-hour period by the Chicago Police Department, according to a <em>New York Times <\/em>report on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It marks a sharp rise in homicides and shootings since last year in one of the largest American cities, located in the state of Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Various conflicts among gangs over different subjects usually escalate to gunfire in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Among this weekend\u2019s victims was a Hispanic 18-year-old, who died due to multiple shots in his neck and back, while driving in the southwestern neighborhood of Gage Park on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Chicago saw 745 cases of homicide, which shows a 56 percent increase, compared to the previous year\u2019s figure, 476, according to Officer Jose Estrada, a spokesman with the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The year 2016 was the first year in nearly two decades that more than 700 homicides were&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/25\/503471\/27-shot-in-Chicago-during-Xmas-weekend\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-seven people have been shot in Chicago over the Christmas weekend, seven of whom have succumbed to their wounds. The figure was recorded in a 48-hour period by the Chicago Police Department, according to a New York Times report on Sunday. It marks a sharp rise in homicides and shootings since last year in one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}