Incomplete list:
Lexington Street and California Avenues: 13 years old boy (some reports say 12 years old) shot in the head and killed. Four teenagers were shot and wounded, and two men were also shot and wounded. Chicago Fire Department declared the area Emergency Medical Services Plan 1. The gunfire came from a brown Cadillac, a witness said “They were running outside playing tag, and shots rang out……There was blood everywhere.”
6700 block of South Artesian Avenue: 16 years old boy dead after a bullet came through his bedroom window. It sounds like a trained sniper, because the bullet hit him in the neck and killed him. Police don’t care because they consider the victim a gangbanger.
11600 block of South Michigan Avenue: 20 years old man found dead. He had been shot multiple times. No arrests.
4300 block of West Lawrence: A man was stabbed in the arm. Police say he was fighting with another man.
4200 block of South Princeton Avenue: Two teenagers and a man shot and wounded by a shooter in a SUV.
4400 block of South Sacramento Avenue: 3 years old boy gut shot and wounded as he played in front of a house. His mother said the shooter was a man at the end of the street, who had just made threatening statements to her as he walked past. The toddler is in critical condition. One report said police don’t care because they consider it a gangbanger vengeance shooting. However, another report says police are pressing charges against three suspects.
100 block of West Marquette Road: 22 years old man shot in the hand.
1000 block of West Cullerton Street: 17 years old girl shot and wounded in the head as she sat in a car. She said the shooter simply walked up and blasted away.
91st Street and South Chicago Avenue: A man shot in the head and wounded. No other info.
4100 block of West Hirsch Street: 17 years old boy shot and in critical condition. No other info.
2500 block of West 38th Street: 30 years old man shot and wounded. Police gave no other info, but a witness told news media that the victim was driving a car when he got shot. The car stopped on its own and then was swarmed by EMT and cops.
8000 block of South Manistee Avenue: 24 years old man head and gut shot. Police gave no further info. A witness said the man was riding his bicycle when he got shot, and managed to ride to his home before collapsing.
1400 block of North Sedgwick Street: 28 years old man shot and wounded as he was exiting his car. He said the shooter simply walked up and started blasting away.
5600 block of West Chicago Avenue: 24 years old man (some reports say 26 years old) walked himself into a hospital after being shot in the hip. Police swear they found no evidence of a shooting.
1800 block of East 79th Street: 24 years old man shot three times by drive by shooter in a “dark sedan”.
1100 block of South Aberdeen Street: 17 years old boy shot and wounded by drive by shooter in a “dark sedan”.
Independence Boulevard and Harrison Street: 36 years old man gut shot. Police say the man keeps changing his story as to how he got shot.
39th Street and Prairie Avenue: 19 years old man shot and wounded.
1700 block of West Farwell Avenue: 24 years old man waiting for a bus was shot in the leg. Buses were rerouted to avoid the area.
5200 block of South Hoyne Avenue: 26 years old man shot in the chest as he sat in his car. His friend drove him to the hospital.
102nd Street and Michigan Avenue: 19 years old man shot and wounded as he sat in his car.
6200 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue: 25 years old man complied with an armed robber, and got shot anyway.
A teenager was arrested and charged with last week’s killing of an 11 years old girl.
The Chicago Tribune reports their data shows more than 12-hundred people have been shot since the beginning of 2014.
While researching info on Chicago shootings I came across a February 2013 Washington Post article, which reported that Chicago schools get extra money from the U.S. Department of Education to “recover” from the trauma of shootings!
The majority of victims are male. Very few arrests reported.
Once again, shooting victims were not armed, it’s as if the shooters are deliberately targeting unarmed people.
Police continue to insist most of the gun violence is caused by gang bangers, but have made few arrests. New anti-gun laws would not stop the shootings, because most guns used by gang bangers are already illegal!
“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013, calls Chicagoland his homie town