Bloody Chicago recorded 18 murders on May 31, making it the city’s deadliest day in 60 years. The dubious milestone was reached on a day Chicago was roiled by another round of protests and looting following the Memorial Day death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. The 18 deaths tallied by the University of Chicago Crime Lab made May 31, 2020 the single-most violent day in six decades, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Monday. CHICAGO WEEKEND VIOLENCE LEAVES 16 DEAD, AT LEAST 30 INJURED“We’ve never seen anything like it, at all,” the crime lab’s senior research director, Max Kapustin, told the newspaper. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before.”Chicago’s next most violent day was Aug. 4, 1991, when 13 murders were recorded.

Source: Fox News June 08, 2020 18:45 UTC