CHICAGO — Police are conducting a loss of life investigation after a person was discovered fatally shot close to a college playground within the Austin neighborhood Monday night time. The 66-year-old was discovered shortly after 11 p.m. within the 1800 block of North Sayre, a neighborhood that was once served by town’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection community.
Police stated somebody referred to as 911 upon discovering the person sitting unresponsive subsequent to a tree. First responders decided that he had been shot within the head. A gun was discovered on the scene.
A dispatcher stated that CPD had not acquired any calls of pictures fired within the space since a minimum of Monday afternoon. Officers don’t know the way lengthy the person was sitting outdoors earlier than being found.
Ald. Chris Taliaferro (twenty ninth) represents the neighborhood. He was a vocal supporter of ShotSpotter and was a part of the Metropolis Council’s two-thirds majority that attempted to maintain the know-how energetic after town’s contract expired at 12:01 a.m. on September 23.
Regardless of the urgings of Taliaferro and his colleagues and the help of town’s police superintendent and 70% of Chicago residents, Mayor Brandon Johnson refused to increase ShotSpotter’s settlement.
About this sequence
As of 12:01 a.m. on September 23, 2024, Chicago terminated its relationship with ShotSpotter, a gunfire detection system deployed in 12 of town’s most violence-impacted neighborhoods.
Mayor Brandon Johnson stubbornly refused to rethink his determination to dismantle ShotSpotter, although the overwhelming majority of aldermen, many voters, sufferer’s advocates, and his handpicked police superintendent requested that it stay in place.
This reporting sequence, named “Brandon’s Our bodies,” seeks to doc instances of taking pictures victims and police investigations that would have benefited from gunshot detection know-how.
The final standards for inclusion are a gunshot sufferer discovered outdoors in a location beforehand served by ShotSpotter with both (1) no accompanying 911 calls about gunfire or (2) calls about gunfire in a basic space that don’t result in the well timed location of the sufferer.
Tim Hecke is CWBChicago’s managing associate. He began his profession at KMOX, the legendary information radio station in St. Louis. From there, he moved on to work at stations in Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York Metropolis. Tim went on to construct syndicated radio information and content material providers that served each one among America’s 100 largest radio markets. He turned CWBChicago’s managing associate in 2019.
His electronic mail handle is tim@cwbchicago.com
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