Posted on 06/22/2016 8:22:25 PM PDT by Lorianne
he city recorded its 300th homicide this weekend and went on to record six others over a 60-hour period that saw 59 people shot, 13 fatally, from Friday afternoon through early Monday morning.
So far this year, about 1,800 people have been shot across the city and more than 200 of those wounded have died of their wounds, according to records kept by the Chicago Tribune. A total of 306 people have been killed this year by shooting, stabbing or other means, Tribune records show.
A 3-year-old boy was among the wounded who survived the weekend shootings. Police said he’s in critical condition. The boy was shot in the right shoulder near East 61st Street and South Kimbark Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood at 6:15 p.m. Sunday, police said. The boy was in a car seat when an unknown attacker fired shots at the car, police said. People in the vehicle managed to get the boy to University of Chicago Medical Center. He was then transferred to Comer Children's Hospital in critical condition.
Five people were fatally shot and nine others were hurt between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Four of the fatalities occurred in seven hours. The fatalities included a 16-year-old boy who was killed in West Englewood about 9:05 p.m. Friday. He was in the front passenger seat of a car driving through an alley in the 6500 block of South Hamilton Avenue when two males came up and fired shots, according to police.
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Decreasing the gene pool...
A local man received a Voter ID/Registration application for his long dead Border Collie a few days ago. Was on the news last night.
From a Washington org. via a local PO Box.
With the ID the dog could vote absentee.
Urban dwellers are simply reverting to what they did before European Christians brought them out of the darkness. It is a low-profile “Rwanda” scenario...
That toddlin' town.
Chicago, Chicago,
I'll show you around...
Too bad Barky is not moving back to Hyde Park after Trump moves into the White House. Although HP is rather tony and protected part of Chiraq.
And that’s just this year alone - six months.
Certainly, you’re right in all that you said. Nonetheless, it’s worth pointing out that Liberals are doing this to themselves!
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