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Fatal shooting of boy, 15, closes deadliest May in Chicago in 21 years
Chicago Tribune ^ | 6/2/2016 | Alexandra Chachkevitch , Rosemary Regina Sobol and Jeremy Gorner

Posted on 06/02/2016 9:05:16 AM PDT by simpson96

The gray sedan was parked in the ambulance bay of the hospital, its doors open and bullet holes just above and below the driver's side window.

Minutes earlier, 15-year-old Fabien Lavinder was in the car on 89th Street when someone stepped from an alley near Commercial Avenue and shot him in the chest, Chicago police said. He died shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday at Advocate Trinity Hospital.

Fabien was the 66th and final homicide victim last month, the deadliest May in Chicago since 1995 when 75 were slain, according to official Police Department records.

For the first five months of this year, 243 people have been killed, the most fatalities since 248 perished in 1999, a Tribune analysis of department statistics found. By the end of 1999, homicides totaled 643 that year.

Shootings have increased as well for the third consecutive year. The department tracks shooting incidents and has reported an increase of more than 50 percent so far this year. Nearly 400 people were shot in May, bringing the total for the first five months to more than 1,500, according to a Tribune analysis.

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


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1 posted on 06/02/2016 9:05:16 AM PDT by simpson96
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Quagmire!


2 posted on 06/02/2016 9:05:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Still don’t get how a largely “gun free zone” can have so much gun crime. Anyone?


3 posted on 06/02/2016 9:08:22 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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It’s not even summer yet.Wait until the July heat gets here.


4 posted on 06/02/2016 9:08:54 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
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To: simpson96

Absolute proof that “Common Sense Gun Laws”, aren’t. Criminals don’t care what the law is, or who made the law.


5 posted on 06/02/2016 9:13:56 AM PDT by GT Vander (Life's priorities; God, Family, Country. Everything else is just details...)
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To: simpson96

Low intelligence and poor impulse control coupled with corrupt White politicians has turned a major American city into a war zone.


6 posted on 06/02/2016 9:14:55 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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"You never think of yourself as being a victim, but when it hits home it hits hard," she said. "We can fight disease and cure this and cure that. Someone needs to cure ... the city."

Um-mm, when she says 'we can fight disease and cure this and that' - she's NOT talking about the black community on Chicago's south side. They're NOT curing any diseases.

Here's my suggestion to this woman: Recognize the violence in the black community IS the responsibility of the BLACK COMMUNITY. Contrary to what democrats tell you - YOU are adults and you can solve your own problems.

When whites, Asians and Hispanics have problems IN OUR COMMUNITIES WE DON'T GO TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY TO MARCH. We don't go to the black community to ask for help.

We also don't vote in a bloc for one party... but enough hints... figure it out yourselves. You don't listen to our side anyhow.

7 posted on 06/02/2016 9:18:17 AM PDT by GOPJ (When Hillarys Foundation gets a million only $30K goes to charity. Where's the effing press outrage?)
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Meanwhile, Obama is focused on men being able to use the women’s restrooms.


8 posted on 06/02/2016 9:18:27 AM PDT by boycott (--s)
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"You never think of yourself as being a victim, but when it hits home it hits hard," she said. "We can fight disease and cure this and cure that. Someone needs to cure ... the city."

Stop blindly voting for Democrats would be a good start.

9 posted on 06/02/2016 9:19:57 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Guaranteed, I know how to cut this little problem in half by the first of the year. You do too.

But it would be construed as racist.


10 posted on 06/02/2016 9:20:38 AM PDT by Tupelo (we vote - THEY decide.)
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To: dfwgator
Stop blindly voting for Democrats would be a good start.

LOL - yes, that's the first step...

11 posted on 06/02/2016 9:30:26 AM PDT by GOPJ (When Hillarys Foundation gets a million only $30K goes to charity. Where's the effing press outrage?)
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To: boycott

Bingo.


12 posted on 06/02/2016 9:37:58 AM PDT by simpson96
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Blacks killing blacks doesnt matter.


13 posted on 06/02/2016 9:43:52 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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I've nothing to say. Looks like his destiny was already determined.

14 posted on 06/02/2016 9:45:32 AM PDT by CodeJockey
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Good riddance to the little thug.

L


15 posted on 06/02/2016 9:48:02 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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Sad to say yet another black youth is dead. Unfortunately, like many before him and many who will follow, he/they are victims of their culture. The shootings will continue, gun control or not, it is a major cultural change that is needed.


16 posted on 06/02/2016 10:00:42 AM PDT by DaveA37
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Just curious; with the weekly death rate for black people living in Chicago being as high as it is, how long before they kill each other off?

Rahm Emmanuel's plans for urban gentrification depends cleaning up the neighborhoods and getting rid of rampant criminal behavior.

If the restless urban parasites are reduced to the carrying capacity of the socially productive, there's a lot of land on the south side of Chicago that could razed by eminent domain and turned into upscale hipster condos, locavore restaurants, and art galleries. But first they gotta get rid of the crack houses.

17 posted on 06/02/2016 10:01:59 AM PDT by Kenton
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Chicago a demonstration of how well “Reasonable” and “Common Sense” gun control works.


18 posted on 06/02/2016 10:03:06 AM PDT by TYVets
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To: dfwgator

+2 swish, no net


19 posted on 06/02/2016 10:07:24 AM PDT by BiggerTigger
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D s just think of them as late term abortions in the Margaret Sanger mold! Achieves the same purpose as her original intent for Planned Parenthood !


20 posted on 06/02/2016 10:09:24 AM PDT by hoosiermama (1238 Under budget. Ahead of schedule! Go TRUMP GO)
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