More than three times more kids have died from gun violence on Chicago’s streets than during the same time in 2020, as a local community leader lamented that "our children are becoming extinct," according to a recent report. 

The Chicago Sun-Times analyzed this year’s crime statistics and found that the rate at which children are being fatally shot is three times higher than it was during the same period in 2020. 

Gun violence has claimed the lives of 10 kids, age 15 and under, so far in 2021, compared to the three reported year-over-year, the outlet reported, citing its crime records. This year’s shooting statistics show more children have already been mortally wounded than in 2019 as a whole, according to the Sun-Times. 

"I don’t understand how we are not as a city absolutely outraged," Rev. Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Church in Auburn Gresham told the Sun-Times. "Our children are becoming extinct." 

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