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Chicago shootings: At least 45 shot, 1 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city, police say
ABC News Local ^ | May 20, 2024 | ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team

Posted on 05/20/2024 7:20:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 45 people have been shot, one fatally, in gun violence across Chicago so far this weekend, police said.

Two teenage boys and a man were wounded in a drive-by shooting in the Austin neighborhood Friday evening.

They were standing near the sidewalk around 7:30 p.m. in the 5500-block of West Quincy Street when a black Kia drove by and someone from inside opened fire, Chicago police said.

About an hour later, six men were shot on Chicago's West Side, police said.

The men were on the street when multiple suspects opened fire, police said.

Three other men, 39, 33 and 38 years old, were shot in their legs and are expected to be OK.

No one is in custody. CPD detectives are investigating.

Minutes later, a 12-year-old boy was shot while riding his bike on the city's South Side, police said.

Last weekend, at least 29 people were shot, four fatally, in gun violence across the city, police said.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; drugs; gangs
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1 posted on 05/20/2024 7:20:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think the careful shooters avoid striking above the waist, thus preventing the attempted murder charge, should they ever be caught and prosecuted.


2 posted on 05/20/2024 7:24:22 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (Perhaps the Great Ape Lawgiver in the series Planet of the Apes was correct in his view of humans?)
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WHY oh why would anybody shoot a 12 year old boy on a bike?


3 posted on 05/20/2024 7:25:04 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Why aren't eleven and twelve pronounced like one teen and two teen?)
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To: BipolarBob

Feral youth gangs do not have logical reasons for what they do.


4 posted on 05/20/2024 7:27:06 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It wouldn’t be Chicago if they didn’t have weekend violence. A lot of people move their for the violence.


5 posted on 05/20/2024 7:30:02 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When did WE decide to make America a UN 5-Star Asylum Paradise for Socialist losers?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

can’t be......guns are illegal in Chicago


6 posted on 05/20/2024 7:31:51 AM PDT by wny
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You mean, there are people left in Chicago who still haven’t been murdered or at least shot once? At the rate they’ve been getting shot in the last decade or so, most everybody there has been shot at least once. ;)


7 posted on 05/20/2024 7:33:16 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Must be those white supremacist Boy Scouts again.


8 posted on 05/20/2024 7:34:28 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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A lot of people move their for the violence.

That seems counter-intuitive to my old fashioned thinking. It's a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah. Time is running out for this country. We are being dragged into an abyss of lawlessness.

9 posted on 05/20/2024 7:35:57 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Why aren't eleven and twelve pronounced like one teen and two teen?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Per heyjackass.com: Final Demonized Tally: 3 killed, 47 wounded.


10 posted on 05/20/2024 7:37:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Range time kids.


11 posted on 05/20/2024 7:39:48 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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Dang. 1 for 45. Their kill rate is way down this week. Gonna throw their average off a bit.


12 posted on 05/20/2024 7:40:50 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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WUT? certainly the shooters had permits and FOIDs. No?


13 posted on 05/20/2024 7:41:08 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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>WHY oh why would anybody shoot a 12 year old boy on a bike?

You mean the (possible/likely) rival gang member? Or (possible/likely) drug mule? Or just another of the feral urban yoots that’d shoot someone else over the change in their pocket? Or....


14 posted on 05/20/2024 7:42:45 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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>Per heyjackass.com: Final Demonized Tally: 3 killed, 47 wounded.

Wait ‘til Summer REALLY kicks in.


15 posted on 05/20/2024 7:43:43 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: desertsolitaire

I think the careful shooters avoid striking above the waist, thus preventing the attempted murder charge, should they ever be caught and prosecuted.

They want them to endure the pain of recovery.


16 posted on 05/20/2024 7:44:09 AM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re warming up for the Memorial Day weekend, always a shooting spectacular in Chicago.

May to Date

Shot & Killed: 24
Shot & Wounded: 158
Total Shot: 182
Total Homicides: 29

Year To Date

Shot & Killed: 162
Shot & Wounded: 771
Total Shot: 933
Total Homicides: 189

2023: Homicides: 255

— Hey Jackass


17 posted on 05/20/2024 8:12:17 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Low fatalities means these misunderstood lads were just gunning n clowning around to post on social media. These lads n Klowns just fire their shitty guns in the general direction.

Looking for fame and clicks where they post the video.


18 posted on 05/20/2024 8:17:44 AM PDT by dennisw (Why is the rabbit unafraid? Because he's smarter than the panther.)
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Body count is LOW! The Lo-T hood rats are running out of gas


19 posted on 05/20/2024 8:19:27 AM PDT by dennisw (Why is the rabbit unafraid? Because he's smarter than the panther.)
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20 posted on 05/20/2024 8:23:10 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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