Three people were killed and at least nine were wounded in shootings on the South and West sides Wednesday, police said.
Most recently, one man was killed and another was injured by a stray bullet in the Back of the Yards.
About 6:40 p.m., a vehicle approached a 40-year-old man in the 5000 block of South Racine, police said. Someone got out of the vehicle and fired shots, striking the man multiple times in his chest, police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office could not confirm the death.
At the same time, a 25-year-old man in a home in the 5000 block of South Elizabeth was shot in the leg, police said. A source said it appeared the man was hit by the gunshots fired on Racine. He was taken to Saint Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center, where his condition had stabilized.
About 9 a.m. Wednesday, Edwin Cook, 19, was shot to death in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the South Side. He was standing on the sidewalk in the 6600 block of South Oakley when a black four-door vehicle pulled up and an armed male got out and opened fire, according to police. He was shot multiple times, police said. Cook, who lived in the 6600 block of South Bell, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the medical examiner’s office.
About 12:15 a.m. Wednesday, Heath Huntspon, 25, was shot to death in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Four males approached a home in the 5300 block of South May about 12:15 a.m. and knocked on the door, police said. When Huntspon came out onto the porch, one of the males pulled out a handgun and shot him twice in the chest, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
"must be gun control's fault" must be the county's around cook with less restrictive gun laws fault
ReplyDeleteYeah, that too. And don't forget Indiana.
DeleteAnd "white privilege," and "predatory global capitalism," and . . . (yawn) you know--all the rest of the stuff we blame when we don't think it's fair to blame the assholes committing the violence.
DeleteThanks to guys like you, Kurt, "the assholes committing the violence" have easy access to guns. All so you're not inconvenienced in any way.
DeleteThanks to guys like you, Kurt, "the assholes committing the violence" have easy access to guns.
DeleteNot sure I can in good conscience take any credit for anyone having "easy access to guns" (and I have no idea who the "guys like [me]" are). I do my best to see to the enforcement of the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms, but I think it would be rather grandiosely delusional to think I've succeeded in any significant way. Thanks, though.
All so you're not inconvenienced in any way.
Oh, I'm "inconvenienced," alright--when I can get a 20mm Vulcan rotary cannon (with suppressors, just for the hell of it) and 10,000 rounds of high explosive ammunition delivered to my door, no questions asked, I'll allow that gun ownership is just about adequately convenient in the U.S.
At least, though, our servants in government have to pay lip-service to the fact that I have a fundamental right to firearms useful for the defense of my life and liberty.
Yeah, Indiana with all of the guns and none of the crime, why is that Mikey??? What is Indiana's secrect?????
ReplyDeleteIndiana, "none of the crime?"
DeleteSarcasm Mike, sarcasm.
DeleteAgain, another glaring example of how laws in the U.S. doesn't work.
DeleteAgain Gunny explains why no laws are better than the laws we have. A true criminal thinker. Lawlessness is the answer. HA HA
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