Posted on 06/22/2020 4:18:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Five children were among the 12 people killed, including a 3-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl killed in separate shootings on Saturday.
Chicago saw its highest number of shootings victims in a single weekend this year with 99 people shot across the city from Friday evening to Monday morning, 12 of them fatally. Five of those killed were minors.
The latest child fatality happened early Monday in Austin on the West Side.
Two boys, 15 and 16, were walking in an alley at 12:18 a.m. in the 4700 block of West Superior Street when someone fired at them, possibly from a gray sedan, according to Chicago police. The 15-year-old was shot in his leg, chest and abdomen. He was taken to Stroger Hospital and pronounced dead. The other boy, 16, was hit in the ankle and taken to Stroger Hospital in fair condition.
A 13-year-old girl was killed and two other teens were wounded Saturday night in Austin on the West Side.
Two boys, 15 and 16, were sitting on a porch when one of them noticed a red laser pointing at him and heard gunfire, police said. The younger boy was struck in the back and the older boy was struck in the leg. They were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition.
A 3-year-old boy was fatally wounded about two hours earlier when someone opened fire at his father while they were driving in Austin.
The toddler, identified as Mekay James, was struck in the back about 6:25 p.m. when someone in a blue Honda pulled behind the black SUV the boy’s 27-year-old father was driving in the 600 block of North Central Avenue and fired several rounds, authorities said.
A police source said the father was believed to be the intended target of the shooting.
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Just think how many would have died if the strict gun laws were NOT in place in Illinois.
No Whiteys around to blame, so not in the news.
Just wait until the Fourth of July weekend! Duck and cover!
White people in blackface shooting blacks? #BlackLivesMatterIfWhitesKillBlacksItDoesntMatterIfBlacksKillBlacks
Unless you visit DC.
Chi-town; just a “gun free zone”.
Has the skin color of the 99 shooting victims been identified or reported?
No?
Not surprised...
Me? I knew a couple of guys from Chicago or Hammond, and I didn't see anything wrong with them.
4th of July this year is on a Saturday and the moon will be full. Any bets on the numbers for that weekend?
150? 200?
Final tally is 14 dead, 95 wounded according to heyjackass.com
That's part of the problem...
99 Shot with 12 of them fatally... Clearly this wouldn’t happen if everyone marched in BLM protests, silence is violence dontcha know? /sarcasm
And the weekend count doesn’t stop until noon today local time.
They should try midnight basketball
You can’t shame whitey out of billions for B on B murders.
See tagline.
We have all the guns, but they do all the murdering.
They know a new Police Superintendent resigning after mere weeks would set the city of Chicago into deep turmoil even worse than this past weekend's 99 shootings and 12 deaths (five of which were children, one being only 3 years old.)
It's going to be a long, hot, bloody summer in Chicago.
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