This is a story the media will try to ignore. Over the holiday weekend 82 people were shot and 15 died in Chicago, Illinois aka home to President Obama.
Here are some of the shootings as reported by the Chicago’s Sun-Times:Thursday, 9:45 p.m. — Male hurt in Humboldt Park shooting
Friday, 12:20 a.m. — Man shot in West Englewood
Friday, 2:30 a.m. — Man wounded in East Garfield Park shooting
Friday, 2:37 a.m. — Police: One killed, one critically wounded in West Englewood shooting
Friday, 3:44 a.m. — Female shot in Little Village
Friday, 5:18 a.m. — Man shot in New City
Friday, 5:20 a.m. — Man shot in Back of the Yards
Friday, 6:35 p.m. – Man seriously wounded in West Englewood shooting
Friday, 9:15 p.m. – Man struck by falling bullet in Albany Park
Friday, 10:30 p.m. – Woman wounded in Englewood shooting
Friday, 10:50 p.m. — Three men shot in West Pullman
Friday, 10:50 p.m. — Two people wounded in West Pullman shooting
Friday, 11:15 p.m. — Man shot in Austin
Friday, 11:50 p.m. — Man shot in South Shore
Saturday, 12:30 a.m. — Teen shot in Brighton Park
Saturday, 1 a.m. – Two teens injured in West Englewood drive-by shooting
Saturday, 1 a.m. — Man shot, seriously wounded in Clearing
Saturday, 1:10 a.m. –Man shot in Pilsen
Saturday, 1:50 a.m. – Man critically wounded in Little Village shooting
Saturday, 3 a.m. — Man injured in West Side shooting
Saturday, 5 a.m. –Man shot in Austin
Saturday, 5:20 a.m. — Man shot in East Side
Saturday, 10:20 a.m. — Man shot, seriously wounded in South Chicago
Saturday, 4:20 p.m. – Teen, 17, shot in Chatham
Saturday, 4:28 p.m. – Man dies after West Englewood shooting
Saturday, 9:55 p.m. — Woman shot in Austin
Saturday, 10:10 p.m. — Man wounded in South Side shooting
Saturday, 11:20 p.m. — Two shot in West Englewood
Saturday, 11:35 p.m. — Man killed in Roseland drive-by shooting
Sunday, 12:20 a.m. — Man killed in Uptown shooting
Sunday, 3:05 a.m. – Two critically hurt in North Side shooting
Sunday, 4:45 a.m. — Man shot in Washington Heights
Sunday, 4:45 a.m. — Man shot in Brighton Park
Sunday, 2:43 p.m. — Woman grazed by bullet on Far South Side
Sunday, 3:50 p.m. – Man, woman shot in Riverdale
Sunday, 4:23 p.m. — Man shot in Roseland
Sunday, 4:27 p.m. — Teen shot in Washington Park
Sunday, 4:31 p.m. — Man shot in South Chicago
Sunday, 5:40 p.m. — Man killed, another wounded in Austin shooting
Sunday, 6 p.m. — Man shot in Auburn Gresham
Sunday, 6 p.m. — Male shot in South Shore
Sunday, 6:30 p.m. — Man shot in Austin
Sunday, 8:28 p.m. — Man critically wounded in Washington Heights shooting
Sunday, 9:03 p.m. — Man shot in West Englewood
Sunday, 9:04 p.m. — Man shot to death in West Pullman
Sunday, 9:50 p.m. — Two men shot in Auburn Gresham
Sunday, 11:20 p.m. — Three people shot in South Chicago Sunday night
Monday, 12:30 a.m. — Police: Woman shot to death in Morgan Park
Monday, 1:10 a.m. — Man shot in Humboldt Park
Monday, 1:25 a.m. — Two shot in Greater Grand Crossing
Monday, 2:20 a.m. — Man shot in South Chicago
Monday, 3:25 a.m. — Male shot on Near West Side
According to ABC7, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said:
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McCarthy said a lot of the shootings are gang related.
During eight of those incidents police officers were threatened or shot at and returned fire. Police wounded five people and killed two of them.McCarthy stated:
Officers do not relish using a weapon in the course of their work. But when they find themselves in confrontations . . . they must do what is best to protect themselves and the public.
A lot of the shooters have been teenagers as young as 14-years old.
Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel said:
A lot of people will say where were the police and what were the police doing? And that’s a fair question, but not the only question. Where are the parents?
Obviously Chicago is having a hard time controlling the gangs and youth in the city. What do they blame it on? Guns of course even though they have some of the most strict gun laws in the United States.
Emanuel also said:
The gun violence that was part of this weekend was totally unacceptable to every resident from the city of Chicago regardless of where they live. Where are the parents? Where are the communities? Where are the gun law?
Maybe if Emanuel was doing a better job running the city, he wouldn’t have such a big problem.
