[ChicagoSunTimes] Fifty-six people were shot, eight of them fatally, in citywide gun violence this weekend. Six of the wounded were 15 years old or younger.
The youngest homicide victim, a 7-year-old girl, was killed in a shooting Sunday afternoon that also wounded her younger sister.
Serenity Broughton, 7, and her 6-year-old sister were being placed in the backseat of a car by their mother when gunfire rang out about 2:50 p.m. in the 6200 block of West Grand Avenue, Chicago police said.
The 7-year-old was shot in her chest and torso and pronounced dead at a hospital, police said. Police said her younger sister was “fighting for her life” at Loyola University Medical Center.
Other weekend homicides:
A 70-year-old woman was fatally shot early Monday in Hegewisch on the Far South Side. The woman was parked in her car just after 4:25 a.m. in the 13300 block of South Baltimore Avenue when two males approached and fired shots, police said. She was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where she was pronounced dead. Her name was not released.
A man was killed and a woman injured in Chatham early Sunday when someone opened fire at a group of people. The shooting happened just before 2 a.m. in the 7500 block of South Saint Lawrence Avenue, police said. The man, 33, was shot in the chest killed. The woman, 34, was shot in the leg and her condition was stabilized.
Saturday evening, a man was fatally shot in a drive-by in Hyde Park on the South Side. Around 8:15 p.m., the victim, 25, was standing on the sidewalk in the 800 block of East 54th Street when a white-colored vehicle drove up and someone inside opened fire, police said. He was shot in the torso and taken to University of Chicago Medical Center where he later died.
A 59-year-old man was fatally shot Saturday afternoon while driving in West Humboldt Park. About 12:40 p.m., the man was driving in the 1200 block of North Pulaski Road when someone in another vehicle fired shots, striking him in the upper back and right arm, police said. The man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A person was killed in a triple shooting Friday night on the Eisenhower Expressway near Damen Avenue. The shooting happened around 8:30 p.m. and closed down a stretch of Interstate 290 for about four hours while troopers investigated, according to Illinois State Police. Three people wounded in the shooting had been located at a nearby hospital, officials said. One person was later pronounced dead and the other two were expected to survive.
A 35-year-old man who was critically wounded in a shooting Friday in West Englewood died from his injuries days later. Anthony Ballard was pronounced dead at 10:12 p.m. Sunday at the University of Chicago Medical Center, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. On Friday, he was hanging out on a front porch about 5:30 p.m. in the 6300 block of South Honore Street when someone approached and opened fire, striking him in the head and chest, police said.
Friday evening, an 18-year-old man was killed in Belmont Cragin. About 5:15 p.m., the teen was in the middle of the street in the 5100 block of West Fullerton Avenue when someone in a vehicle fired shots, striking him in the leg, chest and back, police said. The victim, Nikko Mercado, was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.
Forty-five other people were wounded in other shootings this weekend, between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday.
Last weekend, 75 people were shot, including a Chicago police officer who was killed, in Chicago gun violence.
The Progs talk all the time about loosening gun laws will result in Western style shoot outs, but those shoot outs are happening on their watch, in their cities, on their dime.
Good idea. do away with the teachers' unions. I'm not sure about the PTA. It used to be a method for parents and teachers to discuss school issues. If it's become communized then it should go, but I don't think that's the sort of thing they're talking about.
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'racist' standardized testing that is an 'Americanized caste system'
The big problem with standardized testing is that it shows what a crappy job 'educators' have been doing, especially in schools with a large minority population. Test scores have been flat for decades with the number of administrators (and their salaries) steadily rising.
Ironically, one of the original goals of the SAT exam was to enable bright students to get into college despite not having alumni parents or going to the right prep school. But now, under the doctrine of disparate outcome equals racism, it bees racis', man.
According to Critical Race Theory you are either an asymptote or a misanthrope. No two ways about it. Actually, those are the two ways. But just those. No more. It's not a theory with a lot of predictive power.
The death toll from a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that shook the island nation of Haiti on Saturday has risen to 1,297 with at least 5,700 people injured
In Les Cayes, officials believe there are only 30 doctors for one million residents
The earthquake took out the town's underground water pipes and destroyed the town's markets, leaving hundreds without food
It flattened hundreds of homes and buildings, with the walls of a prison ripped open by the violent tremors
United States officials have already sent aid to the struggling nation, which is still reeling from the assassination of President Jovenel Moise last month
Pope Francis also urged Catholics to help the country
But rescue efforts may be marred by a tropical storm that is set to bear down on the country on Monday
[Daily Mail] Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has issued a state of emergency for his state's Panhandle region after Fred strengthened back into a tropical storm as it approached the United States.
The storm - which weakened to a tropical depression, before regaining its strength as it hit the Gulf of Mexico, is set to hit the United States on Monday or Tuesday.
A tropical storm warning is now in effect for the coast of the Florida Panhandle from Navarre to the Wakulla/Jefferson County line, meaning tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area in the next 24 hours.
Fred is currently whipping up winds of 40mph, although meteorologists expect them to pick up speed as they approach the Sunshine State.
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey - whose state is also at risk of being hit by Fred - says her officials are monitoring the weather event and 'will be ready to act from the state level if needed.'
Meanwhile, another Tropical storm - Grace - has emerged just behind Fred, and is currently bringing heavy rain and winds to the Caribbean.
Grace is forecast to pass over Cuba on Tuesday, and could bring downpours to Florida and the Bahamas later this week. The storm is currently forecast to travel across the Gulf of Mexico, and could also bring extreme weather to parts of Louisiana.
Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are under tropical storm warning, the Weather Channel said.
Haiti is on storm watch, as the country braces for Grace just days after a 7.2 earthquake left more than 700 dead, and close to 3,000 injured.
The National Hurricane Center said that rainfall from Grace may lead to flash, urban and small stream flooding, along with potential for mudslides.
Fred was located early Sunday about 335 miles south-southeast of Pensacola, Florida, and moving north-northwest at 12 mph.
Grace had maximum sustained winds around 40 mph. The storm was moving west-northwest at 16 mph.
.@thesundaytimes investigated how China undertook a concerted campaign over years to seize power in the WHO. The hollowing out of the health organization led to poor guidance & response when COVID-19 broke out in late 2019 in China. https://t.co/YQgQTW4T1B
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Here's an idea. Let's try going one full year without a major data breach and without any government leaks before we even consider giving law enforcement backdoor keys to all electronic communication.
#4
Maryland State employees also. When the Canada meat processor was hacked from the dark web. The hackers promised a more pervasive hacking worldwide. Then so it is happening. Chip cards are the worst. Chase bank told a client they felt it was Amazon or WIFI sources. I know for a fact the old bar code readers are unaffected(8 years) in my area as is good old cash.
[NATION.PK] Islamabad police have arrested six more accused including owner of Therapy Works in Noor Muqaddam murder case, according to official sources.
The sources said that Dr. Tahir was among those arrested in the night-long raids. Amjad who was injured by the main accused Zahir Jaffar on the day of the incident has also been arrested by police. The police had recorded a statement of Amjad last week but didn’t arrest him due to his injury. The official sources said that all these accused have been arrested for hiding evidence. So far, the police have arrested 12 persons in connection with this heinous murder.
The police have also confirmed that the accused had raped the victim before killing her. The police had added section 376 of the PPC (rape) in the FIR after forensic report confirmed rape of the victim. Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one... the police have claimed that DNA and fingerprints of accused Zahir Jaffar have confirmed his involvement in the murder of Noor Muqaddam. They said that photogrammetry tests conducted on a video in which Noor Mukaddam was seen making efforts to save her life and being chased by the accused confirmed that it was genuine. The footage had been sent to the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Forensic Science Agency, Lahore, to find out if the video was genuine. The Sherlocks had obtained the footage of a CCTV camera installed in the neighbourhood of the accused’s house which revealed that the victim in an effort to save her life had jumped from the first floor of the house and ran towards the main gate, but found it locked. Shortly afterwards, she took shelter in the guard’s room, but the accused broke the door and dragged her inside the house. The gardener, who was present in the house at the time of the crime, had confirmed during the interrogation that he had seen the victim jumping from the first floor.
Noor, 27, daughter of former Pak diplomat Shaukat Muqaddam, was found murdered at a house in Islamabad’s upscale sector F-7/4 on July 20. A first information report was registered the same day against Zahir Jaffar, who was arrested from the site of the murder, under Section 302 of the Pakistain Penal Code on the complaint of the victim’s father.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
