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Cops: 11 dead, 43 wounded in Father's Day weekend shootings
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | June 20, 2016 | Sun-Times Staff

Posted on 06/20/2016 5:05:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Eleven people were killed and at least 42 more - including a 3-year-old boy - were wounded in shootings across the city between Friday evening and early Monday, according to Chicago Police.

The most recent homicide happened early Monday on the South Side. A 22-year-old man was shot in the back about 1:30 a.m. and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he later died.

About 1:30 p.m., someone used a high-powered assault rifle to kill a 17-year-old boy outside a Catholic church in the Back of the Yards neighborhood during Sunday Mass. The boy was walking outside Holy Cross Church when a light-colored Saturn drove by and someone inside opened fire, striking him multiple times. He died at the scene.

A 3-year-old boy was critically wounded in a Sunday evening shooting in Woodlawn.

He was in a vehicle in the 6100 block of South Kimbark when another vehicle pulled up and someone inside opened fire, striking the boy in the right shoulder. The driver took him to the University of Chicago Medical Center and he was transferred in critical condition to Comer Children's Hospital.

Additionally, a Chicago Police officer shot and seriously wounded a man brandishing a gun at the Puerto Rican Festival in Humboldt Park Sunday night on the West Side, police said.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: banglist; chicagocrime; chicagomurders; gangs
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1 posted on 06/20/2016 5:05:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

seems like a slow week-end for Chi....


2 posted on 06/20/2016 5:06:36 AM PDT by mastertex
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fewer shootings than they often have, but more fatalities.


3 posted on 06/20/2016 5:07:47 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Estos sufrimientos pasaran, y la esperanza una salida marcara." ~ Abp. Romero)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because nothing says “Happy Father’s Day” like gunfire.


4 posted on 06/20/2016 5:07:51 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s gotten to the point that I don’t even have to click on the thread title to know it’s Chicago.......Is there anybody left there?


5 posted on 06/20/2016 5:07:57 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My only regret in life is being too young to get to know my grandfathers before they died)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

http://heyjackass.com/


6 posted on 06/20/2016 5:08:11 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
someone used a high-powered assault rifle

No suspect in custody, no weapon recovered but it was definitely a high-powered assault rifle

7 posted on 06/20/2016 5:10:51 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My only regret in life is being too young to get to know my grandfathers before they died)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When is the Obama speech today?


8 posted on 06/20/2016 5:11:40 AM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: Bushbacker1

http://heyjackass.com/

The site you listed is the go-to site for Chicago shooting statistics, in spite of its name.

Tremendous information here that shows the abject failure of the Rahm Administration and his Democrat toadies who are deliberately allowing this mayhem to take place.

We have an Orlando every four weeks or so in Chicago and no one says a word.


9 posted on 06/20/2016 5:13:02 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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To: Hot Tabasco

Low powered assault rifle

10 posted on 06/20/2016 5:13:53 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good think Chicago has tough gun laws. Otherwise, things would really be out of hand.


11 posted on 06/20/2016 5:14:40 AM PDT by mouse1
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To: exit82
To build on your point: we have two Orlandos a week here in Birmingham UK.

And that's just one abortion clinic.

12 posted on 06/20/2016 5:15:42 AM PDT by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...someone used a high-powered assault rifle to kill a 17-year-old boy.....”

Ta da! There it is again. No matter what caliber it’s high powered! No make and model yet? Who saw the assault rifle? No descriptions? Maybe it sounded like a high powered assault rifle.

NMI. No More Infringement!


13 posted on 06/20/2016 5:19:27 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Its how the Big Men of Chicago African American politics keep the gentrifiers out. Its not pretty but if they allow the gentrifiers in out go the Big Men for nice white lady liberal politics. And no one defenestrates African American racial politics like a nice liberal white lady and that style of passive aggressiveness.


14 posted on 06/20/2016 5:20:50 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just sayin’....Cleveland had hundreds of thousands of people in the streets last night in spontaneous joyous celebration. No shots were fired.


15 posted on 06/20/2016 5:21:37 AM PDT by grania
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To: Tax-chick

Must be spending more time at the range.


16 posted on 06/20/2016 5:23:28 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Hillary is Satan's spiritual advisor.)
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To: junta

Gun Control talk in Illinois politics is pablum for the idiot libtards, it doesn’t even rise to the level of code word here. Underneath all of this violence is political power and the white libs in the state have seriously damaged the Pre-Obama Black political power base.


17 posted on 06/20/2016 5:24:18 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: Old Yeller

Or just dumb luck.


18 posted on 06/20/2016 5:24:40 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Estos sufrimientos pasaran, y la esperanza una salida marcara." ~ Abp. Romero)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is a picture at the Chicago Sun Times link of a shell casing from the “high powered assault weapon.” I’m not thoroughly convinced.


19 posted on 06/20/2016 5:30:17 AM PDT by animal172 (RIP USA)
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To: LydiaLong
It is a very confusing holiday in Southside Chicago in the badder part of town.

If you go down there, you'd best beware of a man name of LeRoy Brown.

20 posted on 06/20/2016 5:34:35 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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