1-Year-Old Shot in Head in Chicago as City Nears 700 Homicides in 2021 - YAY Democrat 'leadership'!

A 1-year-old boy survived a gunshot wound to the head in Chicago Thursday as the Windy City nears a grim milestone for homicides in 2021.

Talisha Ashford was driving on Chicago's South Side with her three sons when a shooting erupted near her vehicle.

A bullet pierced the windshield of the SUV, went past Ashford, and grazed the head of her 1-year-old son, Cor'Mari Allen.

"A bullet just went past me, and my baby was in the back," Ashford told ABC7 Chicago. "It made a pop noise to my ear. I could feel it so close to me I actually thought I was hit."

As of Friday, Chicago is on the cusp of 700 homicide deaths across all of 2021. With the killing of Chinese college student Shaoxiong "Dennis" Zheng on Tuesday, the count by Friday was 698, surpassing the 680 homicides during the same period in 2020.

As with most major Democrat-run cities in the U.S., the rate of such violence in Chicago skyrocketed amid the COVID-19 pandemic. By the same time in 2019, the Second City had seen 442 homicides.
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