The last seven days in Chicago have been the most violent week of the year, with just three police districts on the West Side bearing the brunt of the recent violence, according to data kept by the Tribune.
At least 85 people were shot between Monday, April 30, and this past Sunday, including a 4-year-old girl, a 12-year-old boy, a 15-year-old on a CTA bus, a young mother, several other young teens, a federal agent and two relatives of a gunshot victim waiting outside a hospital.
Of those shot, at least nine died.
The city had been averaging about 42 shootings each week this year, according to Tribune data. With last week’s shootings, the average rises to almost 45 people a week. The least violent period was the week of Feb. 5, when 16 people were shot in Chicago.
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They need to do better advertising to let the people know it's aginst the LAW to shoot people. Or post signs around town.
ReplyDeleteWhat is wrong with these people who live there? Do they not know you don't just pick up a gun and go shoot someone because you may not like them? Where are you Rham Immanuel, isn't this your terrority or would you shoot someone you don't like too and think it's ok for this to be happening day in and day out? What a sewer system Chicago is and all the sewer rats who live there. But then where was it that Obama lived before he was President? And....we see that he didn't go back either, I wonder why?
ReplyDeleteDems have been running the city for over 70 years and they don't see anything wrong with the way things are going.......
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