Posted on 09/20/2015 7:10:23 PM PDT by tcrlaf
A violent Saturday and Sunday morning in Chicago left four people dead and at least 19 others wounded, including a 14-year-old boy who was killed and a 15-year-old who was injured after a fight in a park in the North Kenwood neighborhood on the South Side.
The boys were on the street in the 4400 block of South Greenwood Avenue in the North Kenwood neighborhood when a car drove by and someone opened fire around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, according to police.
The 14-year-old, identified by his mother as Tyjuan Poindexter, was shot in the head and died on the scene. The 15-year-old boy was shot twice in the leg and was taken to Comer Children's Hospital, a police spokeswoman said.
Witnesses told police there was a fight between two groups at Kennicott Park, 4434 S. Lake Park Ave., not long before the shooting, and police were investigating if it was related.
Authorities said the boys did not have criminal records or gang affiliations. The shooting happened two blocks from where 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was killed in January 2013.
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This article came out at 4PM, so the toll has probably increased since then.
They need some gun laws on the South Side of Chicago.
Black lives matter, eh?
It’s hopeless, let’s pull our troops out of Iraq.
Oh, wait.
I’d seeing how it was only 4 dead out of 23, they need more time at the shooting range.
You know what they need? More gun control. Shirley that’s the answer.
Chicago needs another 500 pages of gun control laws... This time they’ll really work.../s
I was under the impression that Chicago was a “gun free” city.
They need to get the h out of the way and let law- abiding citizens have firearms, not just criminals End the unconstitutional infringements on Americans’ rights to keep and bear arms. We’ll all be safer and the criminals will know that non- criminals can defend ourselves and others.
What was the Ballerina doing this w/e?
...Chicago needs another 500 pages of gun control laws... This time they’ll really work.../s...
Rahm Emmanuel, in his liberal mentally ill mind, will want to make murder even more illegal.
It is not their number of guns driving these stats, it is the available number of thugs.
No way is Obastard moving back there when he leaves office.
“The 14-year-old, identified by his mother as Tyjuan Poindexter, was shot in the head and died on the scene.”
Not killed by a white guy, so sorry mom, your son’s black life doesn’t matter.
“there was a fight between two groups at Kennicott Park”
Rotarians versus Optimists?
Where is Al Sharptongue and Jesse Jacksuuuuhn?????
And you would be incorrect.
Residents in south and west side Chicago frequently have to go to neighbors to borrow a cup of bullets.
You are misinformed.
You made me chuckle, but still . . . residents of Chicago are allowed to have firearms. So the notion of a “gun free” city is balderdash.
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