Chicago weekend shootings kill four including 11-year-old girl
[Iran Press TV] There seems to be no end for violent and bloody weekends in the US city of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
where at least forty people are shot between 6 p.m. Friday and 12 a.m. Monday.
Chicago police say four people including a four-year-old girl have bit the dust in the shootings.
Police said Shamiya Adams was shot in the head on Friday night inside her friend's house when someone fired from outside. She died a day later after the incident.
On Saturday night, a drive-by shooting injured four people and killed another near a block party in the 900 block of North Mayfield Avenue.
One man was killed and another injured in the first fatal shooting on Sunday. The incident took place in a bar in city's Brighton Park neighborhood.
Chicago, described as the most dangerous city in the United States, has been dealing with a wave of deadly shootings in recent weeks.
More than 50 people were shot with at least 17 of them fatally in the city during the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
An FBI crime statistics, released in late 2013, said the city registered more homicides in 2012 than New York City.
Posted by: Fred 2014-07-21 |