Posted on 07/17/2017 6:40:58 AM PDT by simpson96
CHICAGO (CBS) A mothers eyes are swollen shut from crying after the fatal shooting of a 9-year-old boy in the East Side neighborhood on the Far South Side, a community activist said.
Gustavo Garcia was in an SUV with a 31-year-old man at 11:13 p.m. Friday, traveling west in the 3500 block of East 97th Street, when a gray car pulled up next to them and someone inside opened fire, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiners office said.
The boy was shot in the back and taken to Comer Childrens Hospital, where he died, authorities said. He lived in the South Chicago neighborhood. Members of his family have declined to comment.
However, community activist Andrew Holmes said the boy was approaching his 10th birthday next month. Though he didnt know Gustavo, he said hes learned through the family that Gustavo loved playing video games, loved his classmates and looked forward to going back to Arnold Mireles Academy.
He wasnt an outside kid, Holmes said. He was homebound.
Holmes is pleading with anyone with surveillance footage that might have captured the shooting to come forward. He said Gustavos mother has no idea or knowledge of what led to the incident. He said her eyes are nearly swollen shut from crying.
Shes in shock, Holmes said. Total shock.
The man inside the car with Gustavo was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn after being shot in the back, face and chest, according to police.
Police have said no suspects are in custody.
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These weekly reports are casualty updates in the War in Chiraq. Pathetic that we have to put up with this crap in our own country, and again you can lay this disgrace on the Democrat Party’s doorstep!
Camps.
I know many of you would hate it, but it’s getting to the point that using US Army units trained in urban warfare to police the streets of Chicago may stop being a far-fetched idea. They’ll have to use the example of military units after the 1992 Los Angeles riots as a model.
Just shut it down...Pull out police...
If I had a business in Chicago, it would be for sale...
I would relocate elsewhere....
Let Chicago kill itself and quit worrying about it...
I’ll rephrase my last comment...I would allow the southside and the eastside to close itself down...
North Chicago is, I think, outside where the trouble is happening...
Reverting to the law of the jungle.
Everybody knows it’s the NRA’s fault and guns only come from “Blue” states. Gun control works.
Build a wall around chicago. Check back in a few decades.
ER personnel get more experience than MASH units on TV Reruns
The democrats running the plantation in Chicago don't think this is worthy of notice because no white cops were involved in the killings, and they also know that the unfortunate deceased victims will still be voting democrat for many years to come. Unless there are some white victims mixed in there, why should I even care?
So to me, the article's not even newsworthy.
“...as Hobbes said...”
Pretty smart for a little stuffed tiger.
Thomas Hobbes. Hahahaha
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