Fourth of July weekend toll: 82 shot, 14 of them fatally, in Chicago

chicagotribune ^ | 2014-07-07 | Peter Nickeas

[dennisw]

For 10 minutes, it seemed like the shooting was everywhere in the South Chicago neighborhood.

It started when someone shot and wounded a couple, then two people fired at the shooter, then there was a chase and shots exchanged and a man sitting on a porch was hit. Responding officers kept cutting each other off on their radios as they reported other gunfire in the area late Sunday night and early Monday morning.

Then the heavy equipment rolled in: A helicopter and SUVs packed with lockers of rifles. SWAT teams in green coveralls patrolled the streets with uniformed officers.

It was just one of dozens of shooting scenes across Chicago over the long Fourth of July weekend. In all, at least 82 people were shot, 14 of them fatally, since Thursday afternoon when two woman were shot as they sat outside a two-flat within a block of Garfield Park.

Five of the people were shot by police over 36 hours on Friday and Saturday, including two boys 14 and 16 who were killed when they allegedly refused to drop their guns.

Many of the long weekend's shootings were on the South Side, clustered in the Englewood, Roseland, Gresham and West Pullman neighborhoods that rank among the most violent in the city.

The victims ranged from the 14-year-boy shot by police in the Old Irving Park neighborhood to a 66-year-old woman grazed in the head as she walked up the steps of her porch on the Far South Side. Most victims were in their late teens and 20s......

[Jim from C-Town]

You’re doing a great job, Rahm!

[elpadre]

Is there any Central American country more violent than Chicago. And the WH claims the invasion of our country from down there is because of violence. I think not!!

[ronnie raygun]

The ballerina is doing a great job

[Undecided 2012]

yoyo, your numbers are skewed because once the brothers took over police departments they down graded all violent crime to make appear their doing better.
Aggravated assault down grades to disorderly conduct.
Armed Robbery - is now theft
Rape - domestic dispute
etc etc

[MasterGunner01]

Gee, Rahm, your Gun Free Zones are really working well in Obamaville by the Lake, eh? Here's a thought, Chicago and Cook County needs more gun control, don't you think? this time though, make sure you get the memo to the shooters, thugs, and wannabe gangsters, Rahm. So far, they just aren't getting it. I guess your plea to have them take their shootings to side streets and alleys to limit collateral damages didn't work either. What do you expect from a bunch of crooks, Rahm. They are a very antisocial bunch of people.

[Red in Blue PA]

Five of the people were shot by police over 36 hours on Friday and Saturday, including two boys 14 and 16 who were killed when they allegedly refused to drop their guns.

I am sure they were legally owned/s