Fifteen wounded in Chicago shooting, Trump to address response to crime wave in U.S. cities

Chicago police said Wednesday that they have multiple suspects and are questioning one person in connection with a shooting a day earlier in which 15 people were wounded.

The shooting occurred Tuesday afternoon outside a funeral home on Chicago’s South Side as the federal government moved forward on plans to deploy more agents to the city where violence is spiking, according to the Associated Press.

President Trump is scheduled speak Wednesday afternoon about the plan, in which federal agents have already been sent to Portland, Oregon, to protect a federal court house, with purportedly plans to send 150 agents to Chicago to quells violent crime following the May 25 death of George Floyd while in custody of Minneapolis police. 

Chicago police official Eric Carter said mourners outside a funeral home in the Gresham neighborhood were fired upon from a passing vehicle. Carter said several targets of the shooting returned fire. The vehicle later crashed and the occupants fled in several directions. Carter said all the victims were adults, the wire service also reports. 

Police were still trying to determine what sparked the shooting, including whether it may have been gang-related.

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