While this tool bag and his cronies continue to try to limit or preferably outright ban gun ownership for law abiding citizens....we have another ROUTINE weekend in his hometown!! Q is....why doesn't mainstream media cover these events like they do....oh I don't know say a Ferguson, MO incident???
Friday night in Chicago: 'Please don't let me die'
By Chicago Tribune (IL) September 22, 2014 6:48 am
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A teen was shot to death and at least 14 other people, including a 12-year-old boy, were wounded in shootings between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.
The most recent shooting was a homicide that happened about 4:10 a.m. Saturday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, and the boy killed was the seventh person shot in that area in the West Garfield Park and Lawndale neighborhoods on the West Side.
The 16-year-old boy was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital. Police had a difficult time finding the boy because the 911 caller gave a location of Jackson Boulevard and Pulaski Road before the boy was found in an alley about half a block west of Pulaski just north of the boulevard.
The boy was able to give his name and said, "Please don't let me die," according to police.
About 90 minutes earlier, three people were shot near the intersection of Lexington and Springfield avenues south of the Eisenhower Expressway in Lawndale, just blocks from where the teen was killed Saturday morning.
The three were taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. Police closed Flournoy Street and part of the intersection of Lexington and Springfield avenues, where they found fourteen 40-caliber shell casings. A 33-year-old man was grazed in the chest, a 22-year-old was shot in the arm and leg, and a 28-year-old man was shot in the leg. All three are in good condition, police said.
About 11 p.m. Friday, three people, including a 12-year-old, were wounded near the intersection of Pulaski Road and Adams Street, about half a block from the homicide on Jackson, police said. The 12-year-old boy ran home -- he was out past curfew with his uncle when shot -- and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition with a leg wound. Another boy, 16, was dropped off at Mount Sinai Hospital by his mother.
The third person, an 18-year-old man, was shot in the buttocks and taken to the same hospital. Someone fired at a crowd from a passing van, according to police and the boy's mother.
In other shootings:
--About 9:30 p.m. Friday, a 27-year-old man was shot in the right side in the 7100 block of South Rhodes Avenue in what was believed to be a drive-by, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs officer Thomas Sweeney. He was on a porch in the Park Manor neighborhood on the South Side with friends when someone fired toward them. The man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in critical condition.
--About 8:15 p.m. Friday, one person was shot in the 2900 block of West 85th Street at Hayes Park in the Wrightwood neighborhood on the Southwest Side, Sweeney said. An 18-year-old man was shot in the shoulder and his condition had been stabilized at Little Company of Mary Hospital. Someone was believed to have jumped out of a car and shot the man, police said.
--A few minutes earlier in Englewood, about 8:10 p.m. Friday, in the 7200 block of South May Street in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, three people were shot, Sweeney said. The group was standing on the street when two people approached on foot and started shooting. The shooters fled on foot, police said. A 15-year-old boy was shot in the buttocks and an 18-year-old woman suffered a graze wound to the back; both were in good condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. A 37-year-old man who suffered a gunshot wound to the thigh was in good condition at Little Company of Mary Hospital.
--About 8 p.m. Friday, a 35-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the thigh in the 5400 block of South Damen Avenue n the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. The man was believed to have been involved in an altercation when he was shot, said Sweeney.
--Someone firing at a group hit a 16-year-old girl about 6:55 p.m. in the 1400 block of West 81st Street in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side. She was standing outside when someone on foot opened fire and fled the same way, police said. The girl was taken to Christ Medical Center and her condition was stabilized. Police don't believe she was the target.
--A man was shot and critically wounded in the West Englewood neighborhood Friday afternoon in Chicago, police said. In the attack, a man, age 19, suffered multiple gunshot wounds about 2 p.m. in the 1600 block of West 61st Street, Sweeney said. The man was in critical condition at Christ Medical Cente, Sweeney said. The man had left his home and was found wounded on the street by someone who called police, who found the man with gunshot wounds in the thigh, buttocks and stomach, Sweeney said.
