Seven people, including an 11-year-old child, were shot and killed in a small town in northeastern Ohio on Sunday in a rampage that ended when police killed the suspected gunman, authorities said.
A total of eight people were shot by the suspect, police said, with seven killed and one wounded. Around 11 p.m., he was shot multiple times by a police officer.
The incident is one of 43 police-involved shootings in Chicago so far this year, according to the Independent Police Review Authority. Cannon’s grandmother, Collier Baggett, a Chicago minister who works with shooting victims, said she felt that the police in Humboldt Park have an order to shoot to kill.
Community advocates also expressed skepticism of the recently appointed police superintendent Gary McCarthy, who previously led the Newark, N.J., police department. Others wondered if the increase in police shootings is a result of officers seeking retribution from police murders that occurred earlier in the year.
“The communities and police officials keep calling for somebody to do something about violence, and we know that the police department isn’t the answer,” Siska said.