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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Chicago: 6 shot in 15-minute span, teen killed
2012-07-24
[Chicago Tribune] Gunmen opened fire on a Southeast Side park, killing a 17-year-old boy and wounding three others in a neighborhood that hasn't seen a slaying since last summer, Chicago police said this morning.

The shooting at Merrill Park in the 2100 block of East 96th Place occurred minutes after a separate shooting that wounded two teens in the Marquette Park neighborhood, leaving six people wounded in a 15-minute span, authorities said.

But in all, at least 13 people were wounded in shootings across the city since 8 p.m. Monday, according to early police reports.

The four victims were all standing in the park at about 10:18 p.m., when police said at least two gunmen, one armed with a handgun and the other with a rifle, emerged from a nearby gangway and opened fire, police said.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Well, it seems our country blew tens of thousands of tons of dollar$ on the "War on Poverty."
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-07-24 16:28  

#7  

This is not a Navajo reservation, but it seems it is still 1969.
Posted by: Sherese Whitch3515    2012-07-24 15:15  

#6  The solution must be to name it something other than gangway.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-07-24 13:11  

#5  And on Memorial Day weekend they did big box office numbers.

Yep, some of the most strict unconstitutional gun laws in effect. How's it working out for you.

BTW, there's a lot of places with "poverty and hopelessness", like the Navajo Reservation that straddles a big portion of northern Arizona-New Mexico, but not the level of violence that excuses are made for.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-07-24 10:58  

#4  Pappy wins snark of the day, moderator division.
Posted by: Steve White   2012-07-24 10:55  

#3  This was the norm in many places in America during the 60's and 70's. Poverty and hopelessness in the inner cities bread violence and retibution.

Gangs were a form of survival. Survival became a life and death struggle. NYC was a hot bed of this but you also saw this in many places.
Posted by: Sherese Whitch3515   2012-07-24 10:49  

#2  in a neighborhood that hasn't seen a slaying since last summer

So it'll be an annual event?
Posted by: Pappy   2012-07-24 10:37  

#1  Isn't it about time that Chicago had some reasonable gun laws? Hmm. They can't take guns AWAY since no one is allowed to have them...It must be time to put everyone in tightly-controlled work camps to ensure that they stay happy and safe and productive for the State!

If it saves only one child, isn't it worth it?

Orion
Posted by: Orion   2012-07-24 10:21  

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