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    8 KILLED, 39 WOUNDED IN CHICAGO

    8 KILLED, 39 WOUNDED IN CHICAGO WEEKEND SHOOTINGS










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    CHICAGO --
    Eight people were killed and at least 39 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago between Friday evening and Monday morning.

    The weekend's latest homicide happened shortly before 2:30 a.m. Monday in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood.

    A 25-year-old man was driving a black SUV, stopped at a red light on Western Avenue at Division Street, when a dark-colored car pulled alongside his vehicle and someone inside opened fire, according to Chicago police.

    The rear driver's side window of the SUV was shattered in the shooting and multiple bullet holes lined the driver's side of the vehicle, an officer at the scene said. The SUV pulled forward and crashed into a traffic light in the northeast corner of the intersection.

    The man was shot in the head, but three female passengers in the SUV were not injured, police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

    Less than five minutes earlier, a man was shot to death in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.

    Officers responding about 2:25 a.m. to a call of a person shot in the 3200-block of West Walnut found the man lying on the sidewalk, police said. The man, thought to be in his 30s, had suffered gunshot wounds to the head and back and was pronounced dead at the scene.

    The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office could not confirm either fatality early Monday.

    Early Sunday, a man was killed and a woman injured when a birthday party attended by more than 100 people was interrupted by gunfire in the University Village neighborhood on the Near West Side.

    About 2:20 a.m., 43-year-old Everick Coleman and a 40-year-old woman were at the gathering in the 1300-block of West Hastings when someone opened fire, authorities said.

    Coleman was shot in the head and chest, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:42 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 2400 block of West Madison.

    The woman suffered a gunshot wound to the left arm and back and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where her condition was stabilized, police said.

    About the same time, a 17-year-old boy was gunned down in the Riverdale neighborhood on the Far South Side.

    Corey Buckner and a 41-year-old man were outside in the 300-block of East 130th Street when they heard gunfire and realized they'd been hit, authorities said. They were taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where Buckner died of a gunshot wound to the head at 7:57 a.m. He lived in the 13200 block of South Eberhart.

    The older man was also shot, though it wasn't clear where on the body where he was hit. His condition stabilized, police said. A person was arrested after the shooting and charges were pending Sunday evening.

    About 11 p.m. Saturday, a man was killed in a Pilsen neighborhood drive-by shooting.

    Victor Alvarado, 26, was walking in the 1900-block of South May when someone opened fire from a silver car, striking him multiple times, authorities said. Alvarado, of the 2500 block of West 40th Street, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 12:38 a.m. Sunday.

    Earlier Saturday on the Far South Side, someone shot 29-year-old Luis Marin several times in the head about 4:25 a.m. in the 11600 block of South Torrence, and he was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:05 a.m., authorities said. His home address was unknown. Police said the attack stemmed from a domestic dispute and home invasion that happened in the 10700 block of South Avenue N.

    An hour before that, a 32-year-old man was shot to death on the Near North Side.

    Maurice Selvy was outside with a 33-year-old man in the 800-block of North Cambridge about 3 a.m. when someone opened fire, authorities said. They were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where Selvy died at 3:11 a.m. of gunshot wounds to the head and abdomen. He lived a block north of the shooting scene.

    The older man was shot in the torso and listed in good condition. Police said he was uncooperative with detectives.

    The weekend's first fatal shooting happened about 12:30 a.m. Saturday in the West Ridge neighborhood on the North Side.

    Miguel Bahena, 18, was walking in the 2100-block of West Devon Avenue when a gunman in a gray hoodie and light blue pants shot him in the chest, authorities said. Bahena, of the 5600 block of North Campbell, was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:37 a.m.

    The weekend's latest nonfatal shooting happened at 4:17 a.m. Monday in the Little Village neighborhood on the Southwest Side. A 26-year-old man walked into Mount Sinai Hospital suffering from a gunshot wound to the right hip, police said. He was listed in good condition. The man told investigators the shooting happened in the 3800 block of South Homan. Additional information was not immediately available as Area Central detectives investigate.

    At least 35 more people were shot across Chicago between 7 p.m. Friday and 1 a.m. Monday.

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    That is just terrible. What a mess Chicago has become. Used to be such a nice city, a great city. Now look at it, a Combat Zone, with the toughest gun laws in the country. Wake Up! You're going to be bludgeoned when the bad guys know you don't have a gun, and they do.
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    Chicago gun laws not as strict as GOP candidates claim

    Chicago police display some of the thousands of illegal firearms they have confiscated in their battle against gun violence in Chicago.
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    The mass shooting at an Oregon community college last week thrust the debate over the nation's gun laws to the center of the presidential race. At least some of the Republicans who are running have pointed to Chicago as proof that gun control does not work.

    The city has a reputation for having some of the country's strictest gun laws but has experienced an increase in homicides and shootings this year, which Republican presidential hopefuls Donald Trump, Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina say proves their point.


    "You look at Chicago, it's got the toughest gun laws in the United States. You look at other places where they have gun laws that are very tough, they do — generally speaking — worse than anybody else," the billionaire businessman Trump said on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.


    Christie, who is New Jersey's governor, echoed the sentiment Sunday, telling ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that homicides are up in cities like Chicago and New York, which he said have "some of the most aggressive gun laws."


    But Chicago's gun laws aren't as tough as their reputation suggests. They once were, but courts have overturned or gutted many of them in recent years, forcing a city that once banned handguns and gun shops to allow both.

    CHICAGO'S VANISHING GUN RESTRICTIONS

    Former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley was determined to keep handguns out of residents' hands and he fought every legal challenge to Chicago's gun restrictions during his 22 years in office. But the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a big blow to Chicago's gun laws in 2010 when it struck down the city's handgun ban.


    Search the results of 244 investigations into alleged police misconduct

    Chicago quickly enacted a gun ordinance that proponents said included some of the nation's toughest regulations, but the city was forced to scrap some of the provisions that most angered gun rights advocates.

    Then, after a federal appeals court struck down Illinois' last-in-the-nation concealed carry ban in 2012, gun rights advocates took aim at Chicago's decades-old ban on gun stores. The city lost that fight, too, and last year passed an ordinance allowing gun stores.


    WHERE ARE TODAY'S GUNS COMING FROM?

    No gun store has opened in the city yet. That means that every gun owned legally or illegally came from somewhere else. Just how many is unclear, but Chicago's police department seizes more illegal weapons than any other in the nation — nearly 20 a day for a total of 5,500 so far this year.

    Mayor Rahm Emanuel released a report that blames gun sales elsewhere for much of Chicago's street violence.


    It said nearly 60 percent of recovered guns used to commit crimes in Chicago from 2009 through 2013 were first sold in states with more lax gun laws. Neighboring Indiana was the biggest source, with 19 percent of all recovered guns having been sold there first. But they came from far and wide, with Mississippi second at 6.7 percent.


    Just days ago, a Chicago man was sentenced to nearly three years in prison after pleading guilty to helping purchase 43 firearms from gun shows and individuals in Indiana to sell on Chicago's South Side.


    Several Chicago residents filed a lawsuit this summer against three suburbs, accusing them of lax oversight of local gun shops that they say have been an easy source of weapons for criminals who bring guns into the city.


    CRIME, BUT ENOUGH PUNISHMENT?

    Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy often complains that people arrested for possession of illegal guns don't stay locked up for long.

    McCarthy, who spent most of his career on New York City's police force, notes that former Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress was sentenced to 20 months in prison after he accidentally shot himself in the leg with an illegal gun. By contrast, he says the sentences meted out in Chicago courtrooms are typically no more than six months.


    An analysis by the Chicago Sun-Times bolsters McCarthy's argument that courts in Cook County, where Chicago is located, aren't nearly as tough on illegal gun possession as they might be. For example, the mandatory minimum prison sentence for illegal gun possession in New York is 3½ years, but such a conviction in Cook County carries a minimum sentence of a year in prison and judges stick to that minimum term most of the time, the paper found.


    Two years ago, several black Illinois lawmakers blocked a bill backed by McCarthy and Emanuel that would have imposed stiffer prison sentences on those convicted of illegal gun possession. The lawmakers viewed it as a recipe to lock up more blacks and Latinos.

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    08/09/2016, 04:30am

    Police: 9 dead, 13 wounded in Chicago shootings Monday

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    Nine people were killed and 13 others, including a 10-year-old boy, were wounded in shootings across Chicago on Monday, with seven of the fatal shootings occurring in a span of less than 14 hours.

    The latest fatal shooting happened late Monday night when one man was killed and two others were critically wounded in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.

    The three were standing on the sidewalk at 11:17 p.m. in the 9400 block of South LaSalle when a blue car drove past and someone inside opened fire in their direction, according to Chicago Police. A 44-year-old man was shot in the head and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead. A 28-year-old man who was shot in the back was also taken to Christ Medical Center. The third man, 30, was taken to Stroger Hospital with gunshot wounds to the right arm and left leg. Both men were listed in critical condition.
    About an hour before that, a man was shot to death in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
    Erik L. Williams, 27, was standing on a front porch at 10:18 p.m. in the 1800 block of West 58th when someone in a gray sedan fired shots at him, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Williams, of the 1200 block of West 71st Place, suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the side of his torso and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11 p.m.
    At 9:24 p.m., a man was shot to death in the Homan Square neighborhood on the West Side.
    The 28-year-old was driving in the 3500 block of West Grenshaw when he heard gunfire and felt pain, police said. He suffered gunshot wounds to the left arm, torso and back and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
    Less than an hour earlier, a man was killed and a teenage boy wounded in a West Garfield Park neighborhood shooting on the West Side.
    The 28-year-old man was standing on the sidewalk in the 100 block of South Kilpatrick about 8:45 p.m. when a male walked up and started shooting at him, police said. The man was shot multiple times and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. A 17-year-old boy who was driving past the scene when the shooting started was also struck in the left ankle. He drove himself to Loretto Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
    Earlier Monday evening, a 24-year-old man was shot to death in the Ashburn neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
    He was shot about 7:30 p.m. in the 3200 block of West 83rd Street in his right arm, the left side of his neck and his head. He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was pronounced dead at 7:43 p.m., authorities said.
    Another man was shot and killed less than 10 minutes earlier in a separate West Garfield Park neighborhood attack.
    The 22-year-old was in the 800 block of South Springfield at 7:22 p.m. when someone in a gray vehicle shot him in the back and right arm, police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
    A 61-year-old man was shot to death Monday afternoon in the South Side Chatham neighborhood.
    At 1:18 p.m., Michael Lucas was on a front porch in the 9100 block of South Cottage Grove when someone fired shots in his direction, police and the medical examiner’s office said. Lucas, who lived on the same block as the shooting, was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:35 p.m. Police said he was not the intended target of the shooting.
    Two other people were killed in shootings early Monday morning.
    William Villa, 25, was killed while driving in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood. He was driving a black SUV in the 1100 block of North Western Avenue at 2:27 a.m. when he stopped at a red light at Western and Division, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. A dark car pulled alongside his vehicle and someone inside opened fire.
    The SUV then pulled forward and crashed into a traffic light in the northeast corner of the intersection. Villa was shot in the head, but three female passengers in the SUV were not injured. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died about half an hour later, according to the medical examiner’s office.
    The day’s first shooting was a man shot to death in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. Officers responding about 2:25 a.m. to a call of a person shot in the 3200 block of West Walnut found the man lying on the sidewalk, according to police. The man, thought to be in his 30s, had suffered gunshot wounds to the head and back, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
    Among the non-fatal shootings, a 10-year-old boy was critically wounded Monday night while he was on his family’s front porch in West Garfield Park.
    Tavon Tanner was standing outside the family’s home at 10:18 p.m. in the 3900 block of West Polk when shots rang out and he was struck in the back, according to Chicago Police and his mother, Mellanie Washington. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.
    “I’ve got faith in God that he’s going to pull through,” Washington said outside the hospital while Tavon was in surgery early Tuesday.
    The most recent nonfatal shooting happened late Monday in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side. At 11:19 p.m., a 31-year-old man was standing on a corner in the 6400 block of South Maryland when he heard gunfire and realized he’d been shot in the left arm, according to police. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized.
    At 10:58 p.m., a 24-year-old man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the leg walked into Northwestern Memorial Hospital, police said. His condition was stabilized. The man was being uncooperative with investigators, and it was not immediately known where the shooting occurred. A police source said he is a documented gang member.
    A man was shot several hours earlier in the Roseland neighborhood. The 27-year-old was shot in the upper arm at 5:20 p.m. in the 9900 block of South Princeton, according to police. He was taken to Christ Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized.

    Monday’s shootings followed a weekend that left eight people dead and 39 wounded across the city.

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    08/10/2016, 01:09am

    3 killed, 15 wounded in Chicago shootings Tuesday

    Police investigate in the 5900 block of West Division Street after a 30-year-old man was shot Tuesday night. | Network Video Productions


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    Three men were killed and at least 15 other people were wounded in shootings Tuesday across Chicago.

    A 25-year-old man was shot to death Tuesday night in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side.

    Cortez Tate was shot in the head at 8:27 p.m. in the 7300 block of North Rogers, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
    Tate, of the 7600 block of North Sheridan, was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead at 11:24 p.m., authorities said. Additional information was not immediately available.
    Less than 20 minutes earlier, a man was fatally shot in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.
    About 8:10 p.m., 32-year-old Demarco V. Kennedy was in a home in the 600 block of East 102nd Place when he was shot in the neck, authorities said.
    Kennedy, who lived in the same block as the shooting, was taken to Trinity Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:14 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said.
    Earlier Tuesday afternoon, a man was killed in an Englewood neighborhood shooting on the South Side.
    Julius Coleman, 18, was on the street after getting dropped off from a vehicle at 2:07 p.m. in the 5600 block of South May when someone inside a passing blue vehicle began shooting, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
    Coleman, of the 6000 block of South Green, was shot in the chest and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead at 2:56 p.m., authorities said.
    Most recently, a 30-year-old man was shot and critically wounded in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side. He was sitting in a vehicle at 10:56 p.m. parked in the 5900 block of West Division when someone exited another vehicle nearby and opened fire, police said. The man was shot in the head and taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he was listed in critical condition.
    At 10:26 p.m., a 17-year-old girl was shot in a separate Austin attack. She suffered a gunshot wound to the back in the 1000 block of North Leamington, police said. The teenager was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in “guarded” condition. Further details were not immediately available.
    About 15 minutes earlier, a man and woman were shot in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side. The 24-year-old man and 22-year-old woman were both wounded in the shooting about 10:10 p.m. in the 1300 block of South Karlov, police said. The man suffered a gunshot wound to the left shoulder and was taken to Stroger Hospital. The woman was shot in the left leg and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. Both of their conditions were stabilized.
    About 9:45 p.m., a 26-year-old man was walking in the 3900 block of West Grenshaw in North Lawndale when he heard gunfire and realized he’d been shot in the right leg. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, police said, adding that the man is a documented gang member.
    At 9:43 p.m., a 20-year-old man was shot in the right leg in the 5300 block of West Potomac in Austin, police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized. Additional information was not available.
    Less than 30 minutes earlier, a 20-year-old man was wounded in an Englewood neighborhood shooting on the South Side. He was shot in the right leg at 9:19 p.m. in the 6600 block of South Halsted, police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized. A police source said the man is a documented gang member.
    At 6:42 p.m., two men, both 20 years old, were shot in the 2900 block of North Linder in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side, police said. They were both taken to Community First Medical Center in good condition. One was shot in the arm, while the other was shot in the arm and hand.
    About 20 minutes earlier, a man was left in critical condition after he was shot in Austin. The 36-year-old was a passenger in a vehicle in the 5500 block of West Jackson about 6:24 p.m. when he was shot in the back, police said. He was taken in critical condition to Loretto Hospital.
    About six hours earlier, two teenagers were wounded in a drive-by shooting in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side. The pair was standing on the sidewalk in the 600 block of South California at 12:16 p.m. when a gray vehicle approached and someone inside fired shots, police said. Both teens took themselves to Mount Sinai Hospital. A 16-year-old boy was shot in the chest, back and hip and his condition was stabilized. A 17-year-old boy was shot in the left index finger and left buttocks, and listed in good condition.
    Earlier Tuesday, a drive-by shooting left two people wounded in Lawndale. The 16-year-old boy and 24-year-old man were walking to the store about 3:50 a.m. in the 3700 block of West Ogden when a vehicle drove by and someone inside opened fire, police said. The teenager was shot in the right leg, while the man suffered a graze wound to the right heel. They were both taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where the man’s condition was stabilized. The teenager’s condition was not known.
    The day’s first shooting happened in the Park Manor neighborhood on the South Side. A 25-year-old man was walking at 12:48 a.m. on the sidewalk in the 400 block of East 71st Street when he heard gunfire and realized he’d been shot in the hand, police said. He was taken to St. Bernard Hospital, where his condition was stabilized. A police source said the man is a documented gang member.

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    100 people shot in Chicago in less than a week

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    Nearly 100 people have been shot in Chicago in less than a week, pushing the number of shooting victims so far this year to more than 2,500 ..
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