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-Lurid Crime Tales-
At Least 43 Shot During Weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson's Chicago
2024-04-17
A crime problem that appears to be resolving itself.
[BREITBART] At least 43 people were shot, seven of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson
...Hizzonner da Mare of Chicago. He was elected in April 2023 to replace the disastrous Lori Lightfoot and immediately set about out-Richtering her. A member of the Democratic Party (naturally), Johnson previously worked as a social studies teacher in the city"s stellar public schools system. He helped organize the 2012 teachers strike. Prior to becoming Da Mare, he served on the Cook County Board of Boodling Commissioners from 2018 to 2023...
’s (D) reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
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ABC 7 reported Saturday began violent mostly peacefully and ended that way as well.

At 6:30 a.m. Saturday, a 29-year-old man "in the Logan Square neighborhood’s 2600-block of North Sawyer Avenue" was shot and killed. Police do not know what led up to the shooting.

At 5:15 p.m. a 22-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds was found lying in the street "in the 7700 block of South Carpenter Street," according to CBS News. He was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.

Within minutes of the 5:15 p.m. shooting, two men opened fire on a 20-year-old man "in the 7700 block of South Union Avenue." He was taken to hospital where he was a pronounced dead.

Over 12 hours later, just before 9:20 p.m., police picked up 18 shots being fired on ShotSpotter in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. They rushed to the scene to find that shots had been fired at people standing outside a family get together.

Breitbart News reported that 11 people were shot outside the get together, and many of those shooting victims were young children.

NBC Chicago reported that one of a the shooting victims—an eight-year-old girl—was fatally shot in the head.
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