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A War Zone In The USA

Mike

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Chicago Sun Times
July 7, 2014
Statistics may show Chicago’s homicide rate is down to levels not seen since the 1960s, but parts of the city are still a war zone, residents of the South and West sides said after another bloody Fourth of July weekend.

By 7 a.m. Monday, 11 people had been killed and at least 60 others wounded in holiday weekend shootings across the city since Thursday night. Two more were shot dead by police.

Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy, meanwhile, scheduled a Monday morning news conference to discuss gun violence.

While the boom of fireworks could be heard across the city over the weekend, in places like West Englewood, South Shore and Austin, the bang of gunshots seemed almost as common.

Nearly all of those killed were black or Hispanic men age 35 or younger. Two — Shaquille Ross, 18, and Kezon Lamb, 19 — were teenagers. One was a woman. And details of the most recent shooting victim was not yet available Monday morning.

The lastest of those fatal shootings happened early Monday when a man was shot several times in the South Chicago neighborhood.
 

W.T

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http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=791251

Gun control at its finest! Remember this is O Bummer, Holder and Jesse Jackson JR's old district. Some how I think if a few were packing legal Firearms and shot back, the numbers would fall. But instead the city council has voted to out law the sale of ammunition. Most of these people that are shot are shot as innocent bystanders, with the most common wound being shot in the ass or back.

I was way to conservative.

http://www.redeyechicago.com/news/chi-fourth-of-july-toll-82-shot-14-of-them-fatally-in-chicago-20140707,0,6165585.story
 

Steve

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Earlier I was fixing the sink..

When I overheard the numbers on the TV... at first I thought it was in Iraq...
but was shocked to hear it was in Chicago..

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

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.
 

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