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Chicago shootings: At least 40 shot, 2 killed in weekend gun violence across city, police say
ABC News Local ^ | October 8, 2023 | ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team

Posted on 10/08/2023 5:52:44 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Sunday, October 8, 2023 6:52PM

CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 40 people have been shot, two fatally, in gun violence across Chicago this weekend, police said.

Eight people were shot downtown early Sunday, Chicago police said.

EMS responded to the scene at 2:40 a.m., near West Erie Street and North Orleans Street in River North, and discovered three people who had been shot, Chicago fire officials said.

Just under an hour earlier, two people were critically wounded after an argument turned physical inside an Auburn Gresham home on the South Side.

At about 1:50 a.m., a man and woman, 33 and 52, were arguing inside the home in the 1700 block of West 86th Street when he pulled out a handgun and the argument turned physical, Chicago police said.

The woman, who was shot in the abdomen, gained control of the gun and shot the man in the chest and back, police said.

A woman was killed and a man was wounded in a shooting Saturday in the South Shore neighborhood.

They were outside at about 10:45 a.m. in the 1500 block of East 74th Street when a group of people opened gunfire on them, Chicago police said.

Last weekend, 37 people were shot, five fatally, in gun violence across Chicago, police said

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7chicago.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: banglist; chicago; crime; democrats; drugs; gangs

1 posted on 10/08/2023 5:52:44 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

C’mon man—a 5% kill ratio is embarrassing—the thugs in Philly and Hot Lanta are laughing their a$$es off at you Chitown shooters.


2 posted on 10/08/2023 6:03:16 PM PDT by DaBroasta ("An armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Jeez, it’s safer in Gaza. /s


3 posted on 10/08/2023 6:05:33 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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To: DaBroasta
"C’mon man—a 5% kill ratio is embarrassing"
Maybe if Chicago high school had ranges and firearm accuracy instructions, there would be less drop outs. I mean, aren't schools to prepare students for their careers?
4 posted on 10/08/2023 6:27:31 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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Maybe if Chicago high school had ranges and firearm accuracy instructions, there would be less drop outs.

Indeed--they should at least offer firearms training after school for extra credit.

5 posted on 10/08/2023 6:40:21 PM PDT by DaBroasta ("An armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Its all caused by white people


6 posted on 10/08/2023 6:47:32 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hamas?


7 posted on 10/08/2023 6:51:13 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

well, in shitcago’s defense, if you add up all the people they shot this year, they still probably got Hamas beat.


8 posted on 10/08/2023 6:57:58 PM PDT by davidb56
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To: DaBroasta

Boy Howdy! It looks like they are no longer trying. How in the world do they expect to break the record with that kind of shooting?
To quote Taggart in Blazing Saddles: “I AM depressed.”


9 posted on 10/08/2023 7:04:06 PM PDT by Tupelo (( e pluribus unum is now ex uno multis))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just celebrating the victory over the Redskins, I suppose.


10 posted on 10/08/2023 7:07:20 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Armed Chicago tow truck driver turns the tables on suspected drive-by shooter

https://www.foxnews.com/us/armed-chicago-tow-truck-driver-turns-tables-suspected-drive-shooter


11 posted on 10/08/2023 7:11:20 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As the Mexican drug cartels pump more drugs into the Chicago market, more shootings will kill gang members who are the competition.


12 posted on 10/08/2023 7:24:35 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Around 1960 there was a Mad Magazine story that the typewriters (remember?) were going to come out with finger work saving combined special keys for the journalists and editors who had to write the same story so often. It listed the top movie and music stars and words that got them into the news (new husband for Liz Taylor, fans mob Elvis).

We have computers but there is very little improvement week by week for the past two or three years in Chicago shootings.


13 posted on 10/08/2023 7:36:20 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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C’mon man—a 5% kill ratio is embarrassing….

It’s worse than that. Chicago has a pretty effective ShotSpotter system.

Not counting the 13,186 rounds of “celebratory” gunfire detected shortly after midnight on New Year’s Day, the ferals have expended over 131,000 rounds year to date, with 2,465 victims catching any lead at all and 450 shot and killed. The hit rate is 1.89% and the kill rate is 0.34%.

The ferals are averaging 300 rounds fired to achieve one homicide.

14 posted on 10/08/2023 10:01:19 PM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous w)
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To: davidb56

Year To Date
Shot & Killed: 450
Shot & Wounded: 2015
Total Shot: 2465
Total Homicides: 502

https://heyjackass.com/


15 posted on 10/08/2023 11:48:16 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2023/10/7/23907946/chicago-police-grand-crossing-district-shooting-migrants-crash

Took place outside a cop shop.


16 posted on 10/09/2023 12:45:53 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2023/10/weekend-of-mass-shootings.html?m=1


17 posted on 10/09/2023 12:47:09 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

At least Chicago shooters are consistently over the 50 victims a weekend mark.

The city must learn to curb their Amish, just like the Democratic leaders do in their other ruled/ruined cities.


18 posted on 10/09/2023 2:09:15 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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The ferals are averaging 300 rounds fired to achieve one homicide.

Thank goodness they're not able to get in the military--at least not yet.

19 posted on 10/09/2023 5:02:38 AM PDT by DaBroasta ("An armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
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To: Tupelo
It looks like they are no longer trying.

Maybe Brandon Johnson's approach of not demonizing young thugs and gangbangers is working. /Sarc

20 posted on 10/09/2023 5:30:06 AM PDT by DaBroasta ("An armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
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