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Monday was Chicago's worst day in more than a decade for homicides, 9 people fatally shot
[WAPO] Michael Lucas, 61, was sitting on his front stoop in Chicago’s Burnside neighborhood, watching his 3-year-old great-nephew play in the afternoon sun, when without warning two men ran toward the house and opened fire on him.One shot struck Lucas. As the men advanced up the sidewalk, they pushed Lucas’s great-nephew out of the way and shot Lucas three more times, family members said. The attackers fled in a red SUV, and Lucas died on the stoop from gunshot wounds to the neck and head. Lucas was one of 19 people shot on Monday -- nine of them fatally -- in what the Chicago Tribune has called the city’s deadliest day in more than a decade. Chicago has experienced a surge in violence in the past year, much of it concentrated on the city’s South Side, where Lucas lived. A staggering 2,500 people have been shot in the city since the beginning of the year, more than in any year at this point since the 1990s. There have been at least 426 homicides in 2016, far more than in New York, which has three times Chicago’s population. Monday marked the most homicides Chicago has seen in a single day since July 5, 2003, when 10 people were killed, according to the Tribune. Posted by: Besoeker 2016-08-10 |
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