Kamala Harris heading to Chicago following bloody July 4th getaway weekend

Vice President Kamala Harris will vacation to Chicago on Tuesday in the wake of far more than two dozen shootings in the city, 7 of which resulted in fatalities.

Harris, according to her office environment, will make the journey to the Windy Town with her spouse, Next Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, to provide remarks at the Countrywide Education Association 2022 Yearly Assembly and Representative Assembly at the McCormick Conference Middle.

Although her journey is not linked to the surge in gun violence all over Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's metropolis, Harris' go to arrives on the heels of a deadly weekend in Chicago. Around the July 4th weekend, 54 people today had been shot and 7 of them were killed.

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks onstage in the course of the 2022 Essence Competition of Lifestyle at the Ernest N. Morial Conference Centre on July 2, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Paras Griffin/Getty Photographs for Essence)

The weekend kicked off with 22 people shot, 4 fatally, within just the span of 20 hours on Friday. Violent encounters with law enforcement also popped up throughout the weekend, with Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown begging mothers and fathers to take duty over their little ones.

"There's no motive why everyone cannot appreciate the vacation and each individual event safely. Dad and mom, you should, you should know in which your children are," he stated. "Really don't leave them to governing administration to be the parents of your young ones. We have to have you, mom and dad, make sure you, to aid us make confident your young men and women are protected."

A crowd of protesters in Chicago's Loop attacked law enforcement autos with fireworks and blunt objects soon after authorities responded to studies of vehicles carrying out donuts in an intersection.

Victims of the fatal shootings range from a 24-12 months-outdated lady who was killed in a crossfire between two gunmen to a 35-year-aged male killed in an evidently random assault when sitting in a car or truck.

Bullet casings litter the street as law enforcement look into the scene of a capturing on West Congress Parkway in Chicago, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Services)

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One more 26-calendar year-aged male was killed in a travel-by capturing even though driving his bike just ahead of 6 p.m. on Friday.

The most modern documented fatality was a gentleman thought to be 25 decades old, in accordance to ABC-7. He was killed though going for walks on the street soon after vehicle pulled up upcoming to him and a gunman got out.

Various of the victims of non-deadly shootings may perhaps die from their accidents in the coming times, together with a 90-12 months-previous guy who stays in vital condition at Mount Sinai Medical center with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

The youngest victims of Chicago's shootings was a 10-year-aged boy, who was wounded in his bedroom soon after at least one particular gunman opened hearth on his dwelling. The boy is in the healthcare facility and in great condition, according to ABC.

Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks in the course of a science initiative event at the College of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. July 23, 2020. (REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski)

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Harris' journey to the metropolis also follows a July 4th parade shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, that reportedly left at minimum 6 useless and 24 wounded.

G3 Box News Electronic did not obtain an immediate reaction from Harris' office on her excursion and the new gun violence.

G3 Box News' Anders Hagstrom contributed to this post.