Chicago braces for deadly July 4 weekend as Fox News analyst takes action in brother's unsolved murder
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Chicago is preparing for another potentially violent 4th of July weekend. Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell is still seeking answers regarding his brother’s murder in Chicago in 2022.

Last year, over the holiday weekend, there were more than 100 shooting incidents, resulting in 19 deaths, perpetuating a troubling pattern of violent crime that the city faces on Independence Day.

For Caldwell, the problem of violent crime in Chicago is deeply personal. His brother, Christian Beamon, who was 18 at the time, was among two people killed and two others wounded during a shooting on Chicago’s South Side on June 24, 2022. According to the Chicago Police Department (CPD), his brother was not the intended target of this attack.

“When tragedy hit, I had no idea that that door would be knocked on — never wanted that door to be knocked on — but because it was, and because I happen to be in a place where I have access to contacts people don’t normally have, certainly, this has [received] a lot of attention in the press,” Cadlwell told Fox News Digital of his brother’s unsolved murder. 

Gianno Caldwell and his younger brother Christian

Fox News analyst Gianno Caldwell is looking for answers after his 18-year-old brother, Christian, was fatally shot in Chicago on Saturday. (Gianno Caldwell)

“When I started the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety at caldwellinstitute.org … we supported Nathan Hochman for [Los Angeles] District Attorney, somebody who’s strong on crime, believes in fairness and justice, but treating the criminal just like they are, a criminal. And those are what I think many Democrats on the left are not … willing to do. They’re not willing to stand up and be brave and say, no, enough is enough. We gotta be tough,” the Fox analyst said.

The June 24, 2022, shooting that killed Beamon on the 11400 block of South Vincennes Avenue also left an 18-year-old woman dead, a 31-year-old man in critical condition and a 25-year-old woman in “fair” condition with a gunshot wound to the leg, according to CPD.

An unidentified male offender entered a black sedan and fled the scene eastbound after the shooting, CPD said.

Photo showing biker riding in front of Chicago skyline

Of the 573 homicides recorded last year, CPD’s Bureau of Detectives cleared 319, representing a clearance rate of 51.7% — the highest since 2019. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar, File)

Chicago reached a 25-year high in homicides in 2021, when it recorded 804 killings. Since then, that number has steadily fallen to 695 homicides in 2022, 617 homicides in 2023, and 573 homicides in 2024. Last year marked the first time in five years since the Windy City recorded a homicide total under 600.

Of the 573 homicides recorded last year, CPD’s Bureau of Detectives cleared 319, representing a clearance rate of 51.7% — the highest since 2019.

Fox News Digital reached out to the mayor’s office for comment.

Caldwell and his brother were two of nine siblings who grew up in a low-income household in Chicago. The Fox analyst has repeatedly criticized the city’s soft-on-crime policies that allow repeat offenders back on the streets.

Fox News analyst Gianno Caldwell.

Political analyst Gianno Caldwell appears on Fox News. 

Born in 2004, Beamon was the youngest of the siblings and had just turned 18 in 2022. Caldwell previously told Fox News Digital that Beamon and his other younger brothers are like sons to him as the oldest sibling.

Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect or suspects involved in the shooting that left Beamon dead.

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