Posted on 03/12/2006 8:54:11 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Second Girl Shot In 9 Days In Englewood
(CBS) For the second time in little more than a week, another young girl is shot to death in the same Chicago neighborhood.
It's a crime that has people in the Englewood neighborhood outraged.
Ten-year-old Siretha White was celebrating at her own surprise birthday party Saturday night when bullets pierced the window of a home in the South Side neighborhood killing her.
Just eight days earlier and just blocks away, 14-year old Starkesia Reed was also killed by a stray bullet in her home.
As CBS 2's Rafael Romo reports, the community is pleading for an end to the violence.
Neighbors and friends will always remember the friendly smile of 10-year-old Siretha White. Now they are mourning the girl everybody in the neighborhood called Nugget.
“My sister gave her a surprise party,” said the girl’s mother, Siretha Woods.
About 30 kids were attending a surprise birthday party at 2016 W. 70th Place. Siretha would have been 11 years old on Monday.
The girl’s family says when the shooting started the fifth-grader tried to run to the back of the house where her party was being held.
“She was already on the floor, but she got up because the bullets kept coming, and she tried to run back close to the back, where the bullets weren't coming in. She didn't make it,” said the victim’s aunt, Deanna Woods.
Around 9 p.m., a shooter in a car opened fire and bullets flew in the direction of the home, according to a Police News affairs spokesperson.
One bullet also struck a man in the street. He suffered minor injuries, officials said.
“Members of a street gang pulled up in front and shot at members of a rival street gang who were standing out in front of the house where this party was taking place,” said Chicago Police Department Supt. Phil Cline.
Siretha was pronounced dead at 9:15 p.m. Saturday at Holy Cross Hospital, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
Her death happens only eight days after Starkesia Reed, a 14-year-old girl from the same neighborhood, died in a similar shooting.
“We pray that the guns are found, recovered; the people that are responsible will be punished and we can stop this senseless killing of our innocent children,” said Starkesia’s mother, Denise Reed.
On Sunday, Siretha’s mother called for the killer to come forward.
“Turn yourself in, if we don’t have you already,” Woods said. “I don’t care who you are. I don’t care if you know me. This is not right. This got to stop.”
“Englewood needs to be cleaned up. It needs to be cleaned up fast, and they need to clean it up right now. Because this really just don't make no sense: innocent children,” said Siretha’s aunt, Monia Walker.
Chicago police say they're questioning two suspects in relation to the most recent shooting. A white Cadillac investigators believe was used in the shooting was recovered Sunday in the suburbs.
Police also say the weapon used in the shooting was a Tech-Nine assault weapon, which is considered illegal in this country.
Police say they have some leads but are asking the community for help to find Siretha’s killer, Irving reports. No one is in custody.
Poor girl... :(
Bush did it.
Tragic.
This is very tragic...prayers for her and her family
Why is there still a problem with inner city violence?
Is there much left to say?
Get the criminal who uses it, the gun won't shoot a little girl by itself.
Oh yeah. That plea will work. NOT!
This definitely demonstrates the need to ban .50 caliber rifles and assault weapons.
"Police also say the weapon used in the shooting was a Tech-Nine assault weapon, which is considered illegal in this country".
No they aren't. Pre-1994 "Assault Weapons Ban" ones are legal. And they may be back in production again, I'm not sure if the company that made them went out of business.
With the 1994 ban sunset, it is a matter of state and local laws banning "Assault" type weapons instead of a federal ban.
Round all the gang members up, put them in a bullet proof room, arm them all and let them go at it... the ones that survive can be shot as they come out.
Aren't guns banned in Chicagostan? I mean, really - I know Daley is dumb, but nobody could be that dumb to see that gun control is a total failure.
Police also say the weapon used in the shooting was a Tech-Nine assault weapon, which is considered illegal in this country.
*Well I say take away his licence to carry firearms as a law abiding citizen!/s
But when it comes time for trial, the "outraged" neighbors will be wearing "don't snitch" t-shirts outsde the courthouse like they did in Philly.
Maybe the t-shirts can read "don't snitch" in Spanish!
See, it really is hard out here to be a pimp!
Give us open season on gangbangers and they'll be history in a month or less.
Handguns have been banned in Chicago, btw, since the administration of One-Term (Jane) Byrne. How could this have happened?
Get the rival gangs together and lock them in a bowling alley.
So is everything else in chicago. It was a drive by. Outlaw cars now. Only the police and politicians should have cars
The only solution is to take all guns away from law abiding citizens.
No. Have to leave it to the professionals. That way we can have a war on gangs for the next 50 years and spend billions.
There aint no illegals in this part of town. Englewood be Disciple territory since the 1960s, bee-otch!
Therein lies the true answer. It is a solveable problem.
Gangs make hell on earth.
/sarcasm
Of course the evil leftist journalist who wrote this article would not state any of these leads because then the leftist jounrnalist would then have to blame the suspects and not the guns for killing the girl.
"Englewood needs to be cleaned up"
Daley fixed that...he put up ornamental iron fences along the streets. Keep voting Democrat, and get more of that!
There is a full-auto version out there that is illegal in all respects.
The sick part about this story is that there are some gun-grabbers over at HCI/Brady Campaign who are secretly talking amongst themselves:
"...Thank goodness we have another little dead girl! Keep your fingers crossed that a third gets shot in the same neighborhood so that we get a hat-trick for the week..."
As mentioned by Wayne LaPierre years ago, a certain amount of bloodshed is both welcomed and appreciated by this organization...or they're out of business. If the people getting killed are little girls attending birthday parties, it suits them even better. Their unhinged desire to seize all firearms supercedes any decency and humanity they might otherwise have.
~ Blue Jays ~
Of course! What was I thinking??? :-)
I don't think that is the right attitude to take. I am personally getting a little bit upset that no one cares that kids are getting killed in the Inner Cities. There is a double standard in this country, if it was white kids getting killed, the National Guard would be sent in. To me, tolerance of this kind is a form of subtle racism, and I am a conservative republican.
Job security.
BRADY CAMPAIGN PRAISES GOVERNOR BLAGOJEVICH FOR STANDING UP TO SPECIAL INTERESTS AND PROTECTING THE PEOPLE OF ILLINOIS
For Immediate Release:
01-18-2006 Contact Communications:
(202) 898-0792
Springfield, IL - Jim Brady, Chair of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement.
“A big thumbs up to Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who used today’s State of the State address to make it clear that he’ll continue to stand up for the families and children of Illinois, and stand up to the gun lobby.
“Along with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and many state legislators, Governor Blagojevich has made it clear that protecting our children from AK-47s and Uzis is more important than currying the political favor of the gun lobby. The Governor has chosen to side with the angels, and the people of Illinois should be very grateful.
“The Brady Campaign was honored to have two of our activists, Tom Vanden Berk and Jennifer Bishop, be invited as special guests of the Governor, along with our great friend Thom Mennard from the Illinois Council against Handgun Violence. Governor Blagojevich has pledged he’ll fight to keep Illinois familes safe - and we promise we’ll join him in that fight.”
Not if it was manufactured before 1986. It's a Class III and requires payment of a $200 tax stamp to the ATF. The chief law enforcement officer in your area (usually the sheriff) has to sign off as well. I could buy one tomorrow, but why pay upwards of $15,000 for such a piece of junk? Prices are very high because the only machine guns you can buy are those manufactured before 1986. The number of serviceale ones is dwindling.
Daley's stupid policies are responsible for this. He is more worried about disarming everyone than going after the gangs. It's easy to place the blame on inanimate objects. Take away firearms and you'll see a change to knives and machetes. It isn't the inanimate objects, it is the criminal animals using them.
9 outta 10 Chocolate Mayors prefer unarmed citizens.
It keeps the criminal murdering thugs relaxed enough that the state medicare doesnt have to provide prozac to them before they work up the nerve to comit crimes!
And as a bonus you can make a delicious drink with a little milk!
Too pissed to post a suitable rant. Whoever did this will pay a price in hell.
I believe the original (although trite and hackneyed) Bush comment to which you replied was clearly intended to "predict" what the mainstream press would say about the incident...but malice clearly wasn't intended.
Before trotting out the whole racial thing...let's see how many eager witnesses will step forward to speak with the police. I'm betting those individuals will be able to be counted on less than one hand. The shooting happened in the middle of Chicago during the day, yet it will be like pulling teeth to obtain assistance from the residents, mark my words.
~ Blue Jays ~
I agree there would be outrage should violence by the CrackerGuys white gang kill little white girls in Westchester.
I lived in the northern suburbs of CHicago and the city proper including a few years in the area just the other side of Englewood, (Woodlawn, directly across the Midway from the U. of Chicago) and Hyde Park, the "South Side".
Street gangs in Chicago were every bit as rough (and much more numerous , I think) than any in any other part of America during the sixties and seventies. Some of the wackier lefty students at U. of C. saw gangs like the local Blackstone Rangers as the advance guard in the "struggle" against local and Fed authority, especially as regards the "evil" U of Chicago, and , especially in '68, the very intense few months before and after the Dem Convention downtown. The Black Panthers, El Rukn, the Rangers, etc. etc. were all over the South Side, the Thorndale Street Jagoffs and The Insane Unknowns (my two personal favorites) were on the Northside, where I lived mostly throughout the 70s>Just yesterday I saw on the news a TOO BRIEF mention of multi-city police raids taking place in different part of the country to get gang members, drug-dealers, etc. off the streets, at least temporarily. These things are costly, and ultimately futile. This of course has been going on EVERYWHERE in America for most of its life, not to mention our own lifetimes, and NO ONE has the will to get these murderous bastards OFF THE STREETS PERMANENTLY. We all know the reasons for this. It would take a nationwide movement, with mass demonstrations wherever
there is a problem that has reached critical mass, to get some real decisive action to prevent the tragedies like the one described in this post. Without a mass urban uprising protesting conditions in the inner city, that will not happen.
just watched the video from CBS Chicago, It ends with "Police say they are questioning two suspects......"
This of course is the problem....all these incidents are treated as discrete problems of law enforcement, ONE CRIME AT A TIME, ONE SET OF SUSPECTS AT A TIME. Remind anyone of anything? Wasn't long ago some candidate or another was telling us we should be mature enough to be able to tolerate a low level of terrorism in the world. Is there really any difference between the two kinds of terrorism, except that one is a little more "accidental" than the other. The common denominator is THE INNOCENT GET KILLED.
That's right. That is why it will never end. And that is why the politicians and the police admin want to disarm responsible and law abiding civilians. Create situations where they are necessary because crime is rampant and people can't defend themselves. Just sickening.
No, the reason is then we won't need huge police bureaucracies and unions. Imagine how many people are in this country that have received special weapons and tactics training from the US military. Add to that all the civilians that have received the same kind of training on their own account. They are better trained than the police forces in most cities. They can clear the inner cities of Baghdad. Do you think they could clear american cities of gangs and drug dealers? Of course. It would take a month.
Siretha, Starkesia, Laquisha etc etc etc. Why do certain peoples in our once great nation insist on saddling their children (legitimate or illegitimate) with such silly, nonsensical (and I believe bigoted at the core) names. These names are not Afrocentric. These names don't mean anything or stand for anything. These stupid names don't exist in Africa. They might actually have normal Christian beliefs in the naming of children. No, I'm not including tribal peoples, Zulus, Hutus or whatever the hell else is over there. Swahili, Afrocentric tokenism in America is a load of crap. Ladies how about giving your child a good start by giving him or her a decent, respectable name. I hope these mothers with their intent to give the finger to America through the naming of their children know they are doing a great disservice to their child by saddling him with such racist stupidity. Be honest now, look at a resume with the assinine name Shaniqua on it and what are you going to do with it?
Oh, I agree---it would take a month, and OF COURSE
in effect, the police are part of the problem.I implied as much in the reply to myself that followed the post you replied to. I still say there is NO WILL to re-think the usual ways these criminals are approached, nor does LE want there to be.
You conjure images of the Military in all its various forms, being utilized to do these sweeps and roundups---
now think of the ONLY time the military is called in for extra support, or backup , or whatever......it's only when there is some kind of CRISIS that threatens to get out of control (and it has not always been summoned even then)
What's been happening in the inner cities FOR DECADES is a crisis that's out of control, but it happens more slowly, over a longer period of time---hence, they can conceptualize it as a "crime problem". There was a time that the wacky Left even characterized inner city crime as a kind of protest and hence politicized and romanticized in one stroke the strutting thugs they themselves dreamed of being.
So, ironically, the kind of mass protest/uprising I AM talking about, with people who are victimized (or expect to be) taking to the streets might actually get the military out sooner, not to take care of the murderers and thugs, but to take care of the outraged protestors. That is a pathetic scenario, but depending on the size and ferocity of the protest, we could actually sooner see the military called out against US, rather than them.
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