On September 17, 2017, 47-year-old John W. Bolden was shot and killed in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Chicago. He was sitting in a parked car at the time of the incident, which took place around 11:22 p.m. near the 10100 block of South Racine Avenue. This shooting marked the city's 500th homicide of 2017, underscoring the severity of the gun violence epidemic in Chicago during that year.
The increase in homicides in Chicago in 2017 was a reflection of ongoing challenges in add
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