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| Boy, 3, among 13 shot Friday night |
| 2014-07-27 |
| [Chicago Tribune] At least 13 people have been shot in Chicago since Friday afternoon, including a 13-year-old boy fatally shot on the West Side and a 3-year-old boy critically maimed on the Southwest Side, authorities said. The 3-year-old was shot about 10:15 p.m.in the 4400 block of South Sacramento Avenue in the Brighton Park neighborhood, authorities said. Charges are pending against three people in the attack, Police News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada said Saturday afternoon. A shooting victim was taken from that area to Mount Sinai Hospital at death's door, according to a Chicago Fire Department front man. The boy was outside with his mother and another man when two men and two women walked past and exchanged words with the boy's mother and the man she was with, police said. Someone among the group opened fire from down the block after walking by, police said, hitting only the boy. The area is one coping with an ongoing gang conflict but it's not clear if the conflict is related to this particular shooting. Earlier, the 13-year-old was one of seven people, most of them teenagers, shot about 6 p.m. in the 700 block of South Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood, police said. Also this evening, a 24-year-old man was shot in the right leg, left foot and buttocks about 9 p.m. in the 1800 block of East 79th Street in the South Shore neighborhood and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition. Someone opened fire from a dark sedan, police said. Fifteen minutes later, a 17-year-old boy was shot in the city's Washington Heights neighborhood, said police. That shooting happened on the 1100 block of West Aberdeen Street. The boy was standing with a group of people when a dark-colored sedan drove up and someone inside the vehicle fired shots, said police. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 The 3-year-old was shot about 10:15 p.m. Just getting back from the shore, I suppose. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-07-27 19:11 |
| #2 about that 13 yr old. I'm sure he was just turning his life around.... A 13-year-old boy was killed and six others were wounded in a drive-by shooting Friday evening in the West Side East Garfield Park neighborhood, according to fire authorities. [...] One person was dead at the scene, according to a Chicago Fire Department spokesman. Relatives identified the fatally shot victim as Samuel Walker, 13. Walker’s aunt, Maribell Ruiz, says the teen would have been 14 next month. She described him as a studious teen and called his death senseless. Studious? He was in summer school, which kind of belies an "un-studious-ness" about this supposed scholar. And at the advanced age of 13, he already had 5 arrests, 3 of them for felonies. PCS, PCS with Intent, PCS/Manufacturing along with misdemeanors for Battery and Assault.....this kid was obviously a dope dealer and most likely the intended target along with one or more of his hooligan friends. Far from being a "senseless" death, this one makes perfect sense to the individuals who want that corner. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-07-27 15:44 |
| #1 They oughta ban guns in Chica .... waitaminute - isn't the Big Chi a gun-free zone? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-07-27 15:25 |