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7-year-old boy killed among 30 shot in 8 hours overnight (Chicago)
Chicago Tribune ^ | 7/05/14 | Peter Nickeas, Alexandra Chachkevitch, Jeremy Gorner

Posted on 07/05/2015 4:38:09 AM PDT by Libloather

A 7-year-old boy and two men were killed overnight and at least 27 other people were injured during an 8-hour stretch that started not long after dark..

About 11:55 p.m., a 7-year-old boy was killed and a 26-year-old woman was injured in a shooting in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, police said.

The woman and the boy were standing on a sidewalk in the 1100 block of North Harding Avenue when gunfire erupted and bullets hit them, police said.

The boy was hit in the right side of the chest and was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition. He was later pronounced dead, according to police.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; deathtoll; guns; illinois; killed; obamavoters; shot; thugs; urban
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To: Libloather

Just black racists killing more blacks because blacks lives do not really matter.


21 posted on 07/05/2015 6:11:22 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!))
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To: Libloather

I wasn’t aware Sh!tcago was full of Confederate flags and raving Klansmen. Silly me!


22 posted on 07/05/2015 7:07:22 AM PDT by Gritty (The wicked strut freely about when what is vile is honored among men - Psalm 12:8)
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To: heshtesh

They should bring in some outside talent to do their shootings.


23 posted on 07/05/2015 7:10:37 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Libloather

So very sad.

BTW, why is a 7-year-old even out of bed, let alone, on a city street, at that hour? His parents put him in danger.


24 posted on 07/05/2015 7:44:04 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: KosmicKitty

Yes, his parents put him in danger.


25 posted on 07/05/2015 7:45:01 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: VanShuyten

Up here in Milwaukee, we beat Chicago’s death total, four were shot and killed. We had fewer wounded, only 3 or 4, uncertain as our paper only focuses on the death count which is double last year as of this date. The paper & our police chief have no reasons for the increase, or they are not talking about the reason.


26 posted on 07/05/2015 9:12:12 AM PDT by RicocheT (Only a few prefer liberty--the majority seek nothing more than fair masters. Sallust, Histories)
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To: Libloather

Talk about a FRee FiRe ZoNe!!!


27 posted on 07/05/2015 9:37:09 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Libloather

“Hey, let’s take the kids and go celebrate the 4th by walking around at night on the streets of Chicago!”


28 posted on 07/05/2015 9:43:23 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Popman
July 4th night is not that unusual...

LOL, in Chicago?

I'd have my kids barricaded behind AR500 steel plates until I managed to get my crap together enough to get them the hell away from there.

But then again, I care about my kids.

29 posted on 07/05/2015 9:44:59 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Libloather
Funny story. Well maybe it isn't funny. A few years back, when GPS systems in cars were still fairly rare, I was visiting a relative in Naperville, IL. We were in Chicago visiting the Navy Pier and we took separate cars. Around rush hour, we decided to head back to Naperville and my relative warned me about the brutal traffic we would encounter on the way back and gave me directions that involved all highways.

Well I had my GPS system and thought I'd impress my relative by beating him back to his house by using my GPS to avoid the clogged highways and stay on backroads.

Bad idea. My wife and I were taken through neighborhoods where we were literally in fear of our lives should we run out of gas or break down. Now I've been through the worst parts of NYC such as Fordham, Hunts Point and Brownsville but those places are quiet suburbs compared to what I drove through in parts of Chicago.

Chicago is a nice place to visit if you stick to the downtown area and the tourist spots but stick to the major roads - even if they are clogged with traffic. Finding shortcuts is just not worth it.

30 posted on 07/05/2015 9:51:07 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

I’ll bet you went west on Madison thinking you’d beat traffic one the Eisenhower. I tried that trick.

Once.

L


31 posted on 07/05/2015 9:59:04 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Libloather

Chants of “black lives matter” in 5....4...3..... Or not.


32 posted on 07/05/2015 10:03:48 AM PDT by matt04
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To: Libloather

If that was the nightly news casualty rate in the mideast, why hell, the lib handwringers would declare it lost and quagmire.

But its a footnote in the Chi town papers.

Self-genocide continues apace...


33 posted on 07/05/2015 11:14:27 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: VanShuyten
Only one dead? This has the potential to be a pretty peaceful weekend for Chicago.

Actually, three dead, 27 wounded.

Chicago must have the world's best trauma surgeons. That's one thing they've got going for them.

34 posted on 07/05/2015 11:18:45 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

My buddy was an anesthesiologist in the Navy in San Diego in the ‘80s. They sent him and a bunch of other doctors to LA for trauma training, particularly gunshot wounds and blunt-object head wounds.

He says they got pretty good pretty fast, and while they tried their best, they didn’t feel too badly if one got away. He said it was much better than practicing on pigs, but there wasn’t the pressure of working on military wounded.


35 posted on 07/05/2015 5:11:14 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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