Posted on 09/25/2013 3:01:55 AM PDT by rellimpank
Bryon Champ decided to seek quick revenge last week after he was grazed in the leg in a gang-related shooting, authorities say.
The convicted felon reached out to Kewane Gatewood, who for a few months had been hiding an AK-47-style rifle under his bed for Champ, according to authorities.
Just hours after he had been injured, Champ and Tabari Young, one armed with the assault rifle and the other toting a .22-caliber handgun, indiscriminately opened fire Thursday night at a crowded South Side park that they considered the turf of the rival gang, police and prosecutors alleged. In one of Chicago's most chilling mass shootings in recent history, a 3-year-old boy and a dozen others enjoying a warm evening in the waning days of summer lay wounded in Cornell Square Park in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.
Five days after the bloodshed, police and prosecutors on Tuesday laid out their narrative for how a seemingly petty gang dispute again painted the city as gripped by gun violence. What stood out about the attack as well was the use of a military-grade weapon, highly unusual for gang warfare in impoverished pockets of the South and West sides.
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You gotta keep ‘em separated.
My daughter has been to Uganda twice and has said blacks in Africa do not like American blacks. I can understand that.
I have learned that a lot of American blacks don’t like African blacks either. Two very different cultures.
Over 50%!!! I think it’s at 75%. Great Society my ass.
When I first saw the story I figgered it for an MS-13 initiation.
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