Posted on 08/15/2016 9:27:20 AM PDT by Perseverando
More than 50 people were shot over another violent weekend in Chicago, a level of violence that has marked many of the summer weekends this year and has pushed the total number of people shot in the city to more than 2,600.
The number of people shot during all of last year was 2,988.
Between Friday evening and early Monday morning, at least 52 were shot and nine of them were killed, according to police. The weekend before, 49 people were shot, nine of them fatally. And the weekend before that, 52 people were shot, seven of them fatally.
The month of July saw 65 fatal shootings, the most for a July in the city since 2006. Last Monday nine people were shot to death, the deadliest day in Chicago since 2003.
The deadliest period over this past weekend was between Saturday afternoon and early Sunday when five people were killed and at least 19 others were wounded.
Among the deaths was the son of a Chicago police officer. Arshell Dennis III, 19. He was with a 20-year-old man who was wounded outside a house in the 2900 block of West 82nd Street when someone approached and fired shots around 12:05 a.m. Sunday, police said.
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The democrat party corrupts and destroys everything it touches.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Hussein’s hommmies acting stupidly.
As targets
Didn’t anyone tell them it is a “gun-free” zone???
Maybe they need bigger signs
(Shrugs shoulders and resumes eating lunch)
Wow, I thought we were all supposed to be in Milwaukee
This must be a conservative smear piece. Liberals have banned guns in Chicago unless you are a muckety muck or have bodyguards.
Back in the days of Al Capone, this would have been a slow weekend.
Someone here once coined the word: Chiraq.
Quite appropriate I would say.
That deserves a keyword link to this article.
They aren't very good shots there in Chi-Town.
It wasn’t white cop related shootings so BLM doesn’t give a damn.
Just your typical Chicago violence up the wazoo.
In fairness, most pistol wounds aren’t fatal, and Chicago hospitals are obviously very good at treating gunshot wounds.
I know this isn’t very charitable of me, but all I can see is a never ending torrent in the $millions of unrecoverable emergency medical expenses.
Where “Black Lives DON’T Matter!”
At considerable taxpayer expense, I might add. And the peoples in da hood aren't the ones paying them.
This must be a conservative smear piece. Liberals have banned guns in Chicago unless you are a muckety muck or have bodyguards.
I don’t think your statement is correct in 2016.
It’s safer in Kabul.
It’s a quagmire, we need to pull out of Chicago.
I just got email from Cabelas saying Firearms could be ordered online for delivery to my nearest Cabelas store. Which, unfortunately, is in...Chiacago. Well, a suburb, but if I were doing this I’d drive twice as far to the next=closest store anyway.
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