Overview
- Over the July 24–26 weekend, a string of shootings in New York City and Chicago produced multiple victims, including children and uninvolved bystanders.
- NYPD arrested 45-year-old William Ferrer and charged him with murder and other counts after surveillance footage and tips tied him to the Bronx bodega shooting that killed 12-year-old Jacob Freytes.
- United Bodegas of America released video showing a man brandish a handgun and open fire outside the Wanda Deli, and two adult men were also wounded and treated at local hospitals.
- Chicago police are still searching for the Humboldt Park drive-by shooter who wounded six people and for suspects in a Little Italy attack that left a 5-year-old boy critically injured.
- A high-speed flight from police on the Southwest Side ended when a truck crashed into a freight-train boxcar, killing four suburban teens, and CPD radio traffic has conflicted with public statements about officer involvement.