Posted on 05/23/2021 4:48:44 PM PDT by simpson96
CHICAGO--A teenage boy was shot and a 12-year-old girl was hurt by glass when gunfire erupted Saturday night in the Rogers Park neighborhood.
They were in the front yard of a home about 9:05p.m. in the 2000 block of West Touhy Avenue when a dark-colored vehicle pulled up and someone inside fired shots, Chicago police said.
The 16-year-old boy was shot in the leg and taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was listed in good condition, police said. The girl suffered cuts to her arm from broken glass and was taken to the same hospital.
No one is in custody as Area Three detectives investigate.
At least 42 people have been shot, eight fatally, since Friday night in Chicago, including a 15-year-old boy killed in Lawndale on the West Side.(snip)
A man was shot and killed early Sunday in West Garfield Park.
The 49-year-old was standing outside about 12:15a.m. in the first block of North Kilbourn Avenue when a male exited a silver sedan and began firing shots, police said.
He was struck multiple times in the face and body and pronounced dead at the scene, police said. He has not yet been identified.
On Saturday night, a man was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting in Washington Park.
The trio was standing on the sidewalk about 7:30p.m. in the 5500 block of South Michigan Avenue when people inside a gray Jeep and blue Acura opened fire, Chicago police said.
A 46-year-old man was shot in the back and was taken to the University of Chicago, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The medical examiner's office identified him as Johnnie Williams.
Another man, 30, was shot in the head and was also transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition,
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Double homicide just happened
So total dead at least 10 and total shot in the mid 40’s
I used to live one block away around the corner on Damen . . . . in 1984. It was OK but not the greatest back then.
Pretty typical kill vs injure rate among the sideways shooting ferals.
Looks like Marxist/lesbian/incompetent racist mayor Lori Lightfoot is going for the Guinness Book of Records for the most shootings in a year for Chicago.
She might also break the number of children shot and killed, as well as just shot.
Democrats, the best friends undertakers have.
The Somali peacekeepers are too busy in Minnesota.
Sad it is.
You know, if there is some terrific rainstorm and Chicago is underwater, Mayor Lamebrain will, without doubt, blame, "Ole Whitey."
Never a doubt in my mind.
Maybe she'd only toss the WHITE cops under the bus.
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