19 people shot in overnight shootings across Chicago

Status
Not open for further replies.
S

shinobi602

Member
600


Nineteen people were shot across the South and West sides from Thursday evening through early Friday morning -- 13 of them wounded over a 30-minute period, authorities say.

The overnight shootings peaked between 9:15 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. That's when eight people, many of them teens, were shot at 79th Street and Essex Avenue about 9:30 p.m.

Then two men were wounded in the Ida B. Wells / Darrow Homes complex at about 9:25 p.m., police said. The men, 27 and 33, were shot in the 600 block of East 37th Street and taken to the University of Chicago Hospitals, police said. The younger man was shot in the head and the other in the right arm, Gaines said.

Around the same time, two other men were wounded in the arms in a drive-by shooting in the 2900 block of West 39th Place in the Brighton Park neighborhood.

About 15 minutes later, a 24-year-old man was shot in the leg and taken to Jackson Park Hospital from the 7200 block of South Jeffery Boulevard, Gaines said. He was treated and released. The man told police he was talking on his phone when he heard a single shot and realized he was wounded.

Earlier Thursday evening, four men were wounded in a shooting in the Little Village neighborhood about 5:20 p.m. Thursday, police said.

They were walking in the 3200 block of South Kedzie Avenue when at least one person inside a vehicle with three others opened fire, police said, hitting the group. Three 19-year-olds and a 22-year-old were wounded.

Just after midnight, a 17-year-old was shot in the back and taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition, police said. He was walking in the 7100 block of South Vincennes Avenue in the Englewood neighborhood when someone inside a passing car opened fire, police said.

Another 17-year-old was shot after 1:30 a.m. Friday in the 3500 block of West Grenshaw Street in the Homan Square neighborhood. He's in good condition at Mount Sinai Hospital. Someone walked to him and started shooting, police said.
Click to expand...
 
For everywhere else it was a terrible night of rampant killings, for Chicago it was a Thursday night.

:( I hope the families of the various victims find peace.
 
Its Chicago.


NUMBER OF HOMICIDES IN CHICAGO IN 2011
441

NUMBER OF HOMICIDES IN CHICAGO AS OF Aug 7, 2012

328


NUMBER OF PEOPLE SHOT IN CHICAGO IN 2011
2,217

NUMBER OF PEOPLE SHOT IN CHICAGO AS OF Aug 7, 2012

1647
Click to expand...
 
Dark FaZe said:
Yeah, might be time for me to look into getting a concealed license. Shits going bad.
Click to expand...
IIRC, Chicago doesn't allow concealed carry.

Half and half said:
America is falling apart.

Doesn't NY and Chicago have tight gun laws?
Click to expand...
Yup. Carrying outside of your home is illegal here. That's why it's so safe for everyone!

I actually saw a guy get tackled by cops and arrested a few months ago because they saw a gun in his back pocket. I had just waved "hello" to him, too...
 
We're getting a lot of these stories posted more frequently on GAF, and its having a predictable reaction. I wonder what our feeling as a society would be if we had an instant notification of every episode of fatal violence. Would that desensitise us? Change us to end violence? Depress us?
 
And I’m from the murder capital where they murder for capital
Heard about at least three killings this afternoon
Looking at the news like "damn! I was just with him after school"
No shop class but half the school got a tool
And a "I could die any day"-type attitude
Plus his little brother got shot repping his avenue
It’s time for us to stop and redefine black power
41 souls murdered in fifty hours

Is it genocide?
Cause I can still hear his mama cry
Know the family traumatized
Shots left holes in his face about piranha-sized
The old pastor closed the cold casket
And said the church ain’t got enough room for all the tombs
It’s a war going on outside we ain’t safe from
I feel the pain in my city wherever I go
314 soldiers died in Iraq, 509 died in Chicago

-Kanye(Murder to Excellence)
 
Jason Raize '75 - '04 said:
We're getting a lot of these stories posted more frequently on GAF, and its having a predictable reaction. I wonder what our feeling as a society would be if we had an instant notification of every episode of fatal violence. Would that desensitise us? Change us to end violence? Depress us?
Click to expand...

Well GAF is as instant as instant gets

faster than twitter, pretty much faster then any news sites in the entire internet/world

every time something big is going down I hear it on GAF first and it trickles down to other sources

I feel it's only going to get worse (shootings and massacres) as the economic situation here worsens...
 
I live about an hour outside of Chicago, and I literally just want to avoid going down there these days. I just don't want to be around this shit which happens on a daily basis.

It's almost amazing how quietly this stuff happens too. The national news barely discusses it, and it's only discussed on a local level here and there. I think that's because the problems that lead to this violence are so complex, and uncomfortable for people and politicians to discuss, that it's best to just leave it alone to some degree, and give the safe respones, ie, more police, and more gun laws.

and it just keeps happening......
 
Jason Raize '75 - '04 said:
We're getting a lot of these stories posted more frequently on GAF, and its having a predictable reaction. I wonder what our feeling as a society would be if we had an instant notification of every episode of fatal violence. Would that desensitise us? Change us to end violence? Depress us?
Click to expand...

So many only pay attention to that which is fed to them through mainstream outlets. So many people are shot and killed in this country I'm not sure it's even realistic to expect it to be covered. We have a big problem, though.
 
Emily Chu said:
Well GAF is as instant as instant gets

faster than twitter, pretty much faster then any news sites in the entire internet/world

every time something big is going down I hear it on GAF first and it trickles down to other sources

I feel it's only going to get worse (shootings and massacres) as the economic situation here worsens...
Click to expand...

Always wonder how GAF manages to scoop larger networks (and by that I mean social, crowdsourced networks).
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Genuine people
2 3 4
153
10K
Highway Star replied
Ethernet across the apartment?
25
2K
ResilientBanana replied
Starship 6 is going to launch in 19 mins
News Event Science  2
54
3K
DeafTourette replied
I Think Most People Are Not Good....
2 3
118
6K
RagnarokIV replied
why do cats talk like people?
24
1K
Badlucktroll replied
Top Bottom