Posted on 04/19/2008 9:01:42 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot
CHICAGO -- The weekend has gotten off to an especially violent start, with no fewer than 20 people shot on the streets of Chicago, three of them fatally, from Friday afternoon through early Saturday.
About 12:50 p.m. Friday, a girl was wounded in the arm when she and another person were shot at 2714 W. 66th St. A Chicago Lawn police sergeant said two people were shot and "one of the victims,'' a girl, was shot in the arm. The sergeant would not disclose the girl's age. The girl was taken to Holy Cross Hospital.
About 3:30 p.m., a 15-year-old girl was shot in the thigh in the South Side Calumet Heights neighborhood.
The girl was shot on the 8700 block of South Euclid Avenue and taken to Comers Children's Hospital in "stable" condition, according to police.
A 19-year-old man was shot in the arm about 5:40 p.m. on the 2700 block of West 64th Street, police said.
About 6:30 p.m., a teenage boy was shot in the South Side's Marquette Park neighborhood. He was shot in the 6000 block of South Campbell Avenue, police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli said. The boy was taken to University of Chicago's Comers Children's Hospital.
A 34-year-old man was shot to death about 7 p.m. at 714 W. 115th St., according to the medical examiner's office. Marcus Hendricks was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak lawn at 8 p.m. As responding officers investigated the shooting, shots were fired at the police. Officers recovered an AK-47 assault rifle from the Union Avenue address.
About 8:15 p.m., two men, aged 25 and 24, were driving south on the 8200 block of South Muskegon Avenue, when they heard shots fired, according to police News Affairs Officer David Banks, citing preliminary information.
The men realized they had been hit, and drove themselves to Jackson Park Hospital, Banks said. Their injuries are not considered to be life-threatening.
Two 18-year-old men were fatally shot about 9:30 p.m., in the 7500 block of South Phillips Avenue, according to Langford. The address of the shooting was 7555 S. Phillips Ave., according to the medical examiner's office.
One of the men suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and back, the other was shot in the neck, according to a report from the police First Deputy Superintendent's office.
Melvin Thomas, of 14922 Washington Ave. in Harvey was pronounced dead at the Stein Institute at 1:20 a.m. Rhonell Savala, of 9750 S. Hoxie Ave. in Chicago, was pronounced dead at 12:50 a.m. Saturday at the Stein Institute.
A man riding in a car on the South Side was shot about 10:45 p.m. on the 5100 block of South Christiana Avenue. The man, believed to be in his 30s, was taken in good condition to Holy Cross Hospital, according to Banks. The man was shot in his left arm.
On the North Side, a man who didn't want to talk to police was shot in his upper thigh in the Uptown neighborhood. The man was shot in the 1000 block of West Sunnyside Avenue about 11:35 p.m., a Town Hall District officer said.
The office said the man shot was not cooperating with police, and there are several conflicting stories about the shooting.
About 11:45 p.m., two teen boys, a 16-year-old and a 15-year-old, were each shot in the leg at 6330 S. Damen Ave., Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford said.
Both teens were taken to Holy Cross Hospital with non life-threatening injuries, Langford said.
About 1:30 a.m., a robbery victim was shot on the 7900 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue. The robber demanded money from the victim, police said. The victim ran away, but not before the robber got off one shot.
A man was shot multiple times early Saturday on the West Side and taken to an area hospital in critical condition.
The man was shot in the 700 block of North Drake Avenue just after 1:45 a.m., Banks, citing preliminary information, said, The man was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.
A 21-year-old man was in good condition early Saturday after he was shot in the right leg on the 4400 block of West Adams Street. The man was standing there about 2:35 a.m. when someone in a passing car fired shots at him, police said.
Just some bitter hometown voters.
So, does this make Chicago more or less dangerous than Bagdhad?
Lawn police? Tough town.
Of course in his mind it is just evidence that stronger gun control is needed.
It’s a QUAGMIRE! Time to withdraw! < /democRAT mode>
How can this be? The wonderful Democrats have owned ChiTown forever. This has to be attributed to nothing more than another VRWC.
Would be interesting to plot these addresses, then overlay the different neighborhood demographics. Bet we’d see some correlations. But, then I’d be profilin’.
Regards,
GMTA. I had typed "Time to redeploy" but changed my mind.
What’s the price?
30 twice!
Left-wing Second Amendment problem-solving algorithm:
0. There is no crime. Nobody needs a gun!
1. Crime goes down. The gun control is working!!
2. Crime stays the same. We need more gun control!!!
3. Crime increases. We need a LOT more gun control!!!!
Chicago Lawn. It's a neighborhood.
Your comparing 3 deaths to 4036???? Come on. Bagdad is more dangerous.
Click at your own risk.
I miss the old ‘hood. I’d go back for a visit, but I probably couldn’t park the car for all the bodies on the ground.
Another gun free zone made by Democrats
Guns dont kill people...democrats Kill people.
Iraq...safer than Democrat Chicago.
QUAGMIRE! Let’s pull out now.
More
So painful, but so good.
“East Side” of Chicago? Wear swim trunks and flippers if you plan to visit.
Yep—for a gun free city Chicago seems to thrive on hearing gun fire. I wonder how bad if would be if guns were allowed in the city......
The violent crime problems that exist in these Democrat controlled megalopolises give ample proof that it would be far better to control human trash than it would to control private firearms. But damn, there is that voting constituency problem isn’t there.
Just wonderin’ how about a 5 year totalfor ChiTown?
barbra ann
Plenty of parking.
Even after you're shot and killed, you still vote for Da Mayor.
“My brother is probably moving out of Bridgeport.”
I’m heading there right now.
Can you believe $2 million homes on Bubbly Creek? Bridegeport Gardens, or some such silly nonsense. I remember when birds would land on its water and cats would run out to catch them. The dogs would follow.
They all could walk on water! In my day, the entire neighborhood couldn’t scrape together $200,000...except for the Daleys, the Danahers, Morgan Finley and Nativity of Our Lord Church.
When DemoLiberals Govern...
“Your comparing 3 deaths to 4036???? Come on. Bagdad is more dangerous.”
Of course, you are comparing the same three days, and with much research and command of the facts.
Liberals can’t think and they can’t do simple math, a humorous result of their own screwed up public schools, I guess.
Why not so your research and post the number of murdered in Chicago over the same time frame the 4036 died?
Lawn police? Sounds like my Home Owners Association. *sigh*
““East Side” of Chicago? Wear swim trunks and flippers if you plan to visit”.
Go far enough south and there’s an entire Southeast Side neighborhood. Fast Eddie Vrdolyak’s old stomping grounds.
Send in the Marines!!!!!
uh, wait no....code pink may be there demosntrating they don’t want any Marines.
see my tagline!
It seems like every day King Richie II is whining for additional gun bans. Yet King Richie II is still surrounded by a dozen ARMED Bodyguards . . .
I am so sick of his protecting gang bangers by leaving the populace defenseless.
lol!!!
CHI TOWN would beat Baghdad...where is Baghdad Bob? Chicago needs him!!!
I would love to see the statics of how many are injured or killed in an average day in America compared to Iraq!
Black Oblack wants to bring the same safety to America.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Yeah, I'm sure he was "just standing there".
That said, almost all of the addresses listed are on the far South side.
Or Philly or Atlanta or maybe Detroit or Wash.DC?? Looks like we’re loosing more people here than the military in B’dad .... sheesh .....
Profilin’ - How true.
It’s probably safe to say there is not a single Irish Protestant on the victim list...
“Time to withdraw!”
I agree. It’s time to give Chicago to Ahmahandjob.
No, he's comparing 3 deaths in the past 24 hours to what the death toll in Baghdad has been in the last 24 hours.
Apples to apples, my friend. Apples to apples.
Are these people just really bad shots? Why were so many people shot in the arms and legs? They don’t give any details of these shootings. It makes it sound like the people just were just walking by when someone fired a gun.
Guess I missed the start of the weekend in Bagdad where 4036 died. Could you reference that please?
God DAMN Chicago!
Signed: Rev Wright
It would only be interesting if you saw what you didn't expect to see.
I'd bet my next paycheck that no less than 18 of these 20 "victims" have prior criminal records.
Just another night of the homies "keepin' it real" in the Chi-Town 'hoods.
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