The younger brother of Gianno Caldwell, a political analyst for Fox News, was shot and died in Chicago on Friday.
Caldwell posted the devastating news to his Twitter account along with a picture of himself and his youngest sibling, Christian, who is 18 years old.
The worst day of my life was yesterday. I got a call telling me that my young baby brother had been killed on Chicago’s south side. I could never have anticipated that my younger brother would have his life taken from him. He asked that you remember his family in your prayers.
Chicago native Caldwell, 35, said to Fox News on Saturday, “What I’m searching for right now is details from the police to determine who it was that murdered my brother.” “My little brother was never given a chance,”
The Chicago Police Department provided specifics of the death at the scene of a shooting of an 18-year-old male victim who had been shot in the torso.
A second male victim, age 31, who also sustained a chest gunshot wound, was listed in critical condition.
Another female victim, 25, who was wounded in the leg, is still in ‘fair’ condition.
According to CBS Chicago, about 50 shell casings were discovered in the shooting’s vicinity.
After the shooting, the suspect is thought to have gotten into a black vehicle and left. Detectives were looking into the incident, according to the CPD.
In addition to wishing for the offender to “bring themselves in” and be “brought to justice,” Caldwell expressed the hope that “they can be rehabilitated.”
If there is any chance of their being rehabilitated, Caldwell added, “Then one day, once they’re out of jail — if it’s not for life — maybe they might turn their lives around and give hope to other young guys.”
“I would never support using violence or street justice to punish those who even killed my little brother.”
However, I do want them to be punished. And all I want from my little brother, Christian, who could have done something like this, is justice because I am a Christian who believes in forgiveness and that there is a second route for individuals who may have done something like this. It’s done.
Caldwell mentioned how his brother Christian liked to play sports, hang out with his buddies, and travel. Caldwell continued, “He liked his big brother.”
Since 2017, Caldwell, who has nine siblings, has made appearances on Fox.
On Father’s Day a few days prior, Caldwell published a string of messages written by one of his brothers.
As sad as that is, Caldwell added, “I am thankful to God for choosing me to be his big brother/father figure because my little brother has never met his father.”
“You have always been the closest thing I have to a father figure,” I once said. In a heartfelt letter to him, his brother Matthew said, “You’ve taught me so much and for that I’m forever grateful and proud of the things you have done.”
“Truly, really impoverished” was how Caldwell remembered his upbringing in Chicago.
His mother had to enter treatment due to her crack cocaine addiction. It implied that his grandma had been given custody of all the siblings.
He never knew his father, so I was like his dad. I therefore thought of my three youngest little brothers as my children. I looked after them because they are my sons. I gave them and still give my family financial support,” Caldwell told Fox.
I never, ever imagined that my baby brother, who just turned 18, would find himself in this circumstance.
Despite going through some very, very awful situations, no one in our family has ever been murdered. I don’t know how this happened because God has always protected each and every one of us. To properly comprehend what is happening, I need more information,’ he said.
Caldwell spoke about a 2017 incident in which one of his siblings was ambushed by armed guys on Chicago’s South Side in a piece for the New York Post in 2021.
On Memorial Day 2017, it was late. Surprisingly cold for early summer, the night had a springlike feel to it.
On the South Side of Chicago, my younger brother and a few of his buddies were sitting in a parked automobile. He described how two males came over, pulled out automatic weapons, and began to fire.
I eventually found out that my brother had lived, and we still give thanks to God for it.
Don’t be fooled, though; I might just as easily be talking about him in the past tense. That night, the best friend of my brother passed away in his arms.
During a recent Fox News discussion on gun violence, Caldwell brought up one of his brothers’ near-death experiences, which he frequently brought up.
“I recall that just a few years ago, over Memorial Day weekend, my younger brother was in a car with two of his buddies when two individuals walked up and shot that car 25 times,” he recalled.
76 police officers were shot or fired upon in 2021, and there were more than 800 homicides in the Windy City as a whole, according to Caldwell, who has previously criticized Chicago’s leadership and the rising crime rates in the Windy City.
‘I’m absolutely disgusted by the violence that continues in my hometown,’ he said during a panel discussion on Fox earlier this month after a Chicago police officer was shot at during a routine traffic stop.
‘If you’re going to have these soft-on-crime measures, you’re never going to get the crime problem under control, whether it be in Chicago, whether it be in Philadelphia, Detroit, wherever it may be,’ Caldwell stated during the debate.
‘These policies must change, and they got to get tough and they got to get tough immediately, otherwise we’re going to see more and more people dying in the streets daily,’ Caldwell added.
Data from the Chicago Police Department’s data up until June 19th shows that overall crime rates in Chicago are already higher than they were at this time last year, despite the fact that levels for murder and shooting events are actually down slightly.
In comparison to the same period last year, when there were 289 murders, there have been 268 murders in the Windy City so far this year, a decrease of 7%.
Since 895 incidents have been registered this year compared to 912 last year, sexual assaults are also down by 2% from the previous year.
The biggest increases, however, were in the number of thefts, which increased by 7,354 from 4,436 reported in the same period previous year, a 66 percent increase.
With 5,586 reported thefts of motor vehicles in 2022 compared to 4,033 at this time last year, this is a 39 percent increase.
Shooting incidences are down 17% from last year, but there have already been a number of fatal shootings, including three kids in January and seven people at a South Side junction in March.