Posted on 05/08/2023 8:57:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 25 people have been shot, four fatally, in shootings across Chicago since 6 p.m. Friday. An off-duty Chicago police officer was among those killed.
The CPD officer died after being shot before 2 a.m. Saturday in the 8100-block of South Blackstone Avenue in the Avalon Park neighborhood, police said. The officer was identified as 24-year-old Areanah Preston by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.
Two other homicides happened on Friday evening on the South Side in the Englewood and West Englewood neighborhoods.
A 26-year-old man was fatally shot multiple times just before 9:30 p.m. Friday in the 6000-block of South Carpenter Street, police said. There is currently no one in custody, and area detectives are investigating. No more information was immediately available.
Minutes later, a 27-year-old man was shot while loading groceries into his vehicle Friday evening, police said. The shooting took place just after 9:30 p.m. in the 7000-block of South Ashland Avenue. Witnesses said an unknown man approached the victim and began shooting before fleeing on foot. Area detectives are investigating and no one is in custody.
Another man was killed in a drive-by shooting Sunday afternoon in East Garfield Park on the West Side. The man was walking in the 200-block of North St. Louis Avenue just before 4 p.m. when someone drove up in a dark Jeep and a person opened fire, Chicago police said.
Last weekend, 27 people were shot, five fatally.
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Downtown Columbus Ohio is looking like Swiss Cheese
How about those Cubs?
4 dead out of 25 shot is below normal accuracy of Chicago shooters.
Is the weather getting nice?
We don’t have a gun problem, we have a criminal problem!
violence in Chicongo, what a surprise
“...fatally shot multiple times...”
Must’ve been a cat....Had nine lives...
Our friends at Hey Jackass! have the numbers at:
Final Demonized Tally: 4 killed, 25 wounded
So the government numbers would appear to agree. This is less common than you might expect. I trust their numbers more than the government’s.
Since it is now a new practice to lower the flag to half-staff because of a headline grabbing shooting, should we not do the same in ChiCongo?
The only difference would be that in Chicago the flag would permanently be in the half-staff position.
Must be a slow weekend
The Allen mall killer was thrown out of the Army in 2008 because he was mentally ill. If they failed to update the FBI’s NICS database to reflect that, then the Army is liable, because that would have stopped him from buying any guns legally. The Air Force has already settled an almost identical case for $144,500,000.
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