Posted on 11/15/2017 8:40:23 AM PST by simpson96
CHICAGO (CBS) — A man killed Tuesday — marking the city’s 600th homicide this year — was among five people shot in a 7-hour span of gun violence on the South and West sides.
Three men were shot, one of them fatally, when someone opened fire from a light-colored vehicle shortly after 4 p.m. in the 500 block of South Lockwood in the West Side Austin neighborhood. A 25-year-old man was was shot multiple times in the head and pronounced dead at the scene less than an hour later, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. His name has not been released, pending notification of his family. A 32-year-old man was shot in the groin and buttocks, and a 28-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the head. Both of their conditions were stabilized at Stroger Hospital.
The fatality marked Chicago’s 600th homicide of 2017, including shootings, assaults and other types of incidents, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
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700’s going to be very close. At the current rate it would only get to 696. Still more than 100 fewer than 2016.
This year Chicago is averaging about 26 murders per 100,000. Baltimore is at about 50 per 100,00. If Chicago was at the same rate as Baltimore, they would be up to 1350 murders this year.
The Chicago Outfit used several .22 LR, usually Remington Gold Tip hollowpoints. (The gilt paint flakes off and spoils the forensic analysis.)
The ballistics allows for only one bone penetration, and just bounces around inside the cranial vault. The brain itself is only the consistency of Camembert cheese, so you can get two or three skips. The tears in the skin are small and don't bleed much.
The Outfit only used a shotgun when they wanted to send a message. Mad Sam DeStefano was all but shredded with a pump gun. Same with Roger Touhy, and Manny Sklar...
Of coarse, that was back when they had pros, and they only whacked their own.
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