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Subscribe to RSSCHICAGO -- Three people have been killed and six others wounded in Chicago gun violence since Friday afternoon, authorities said. Several of the shooting victims, including two of the people killed, were teenagers.
The most recent fatality happened about 12:50 a.m. (1:50 a.m. ET) Sunday, when a man was shot and killed in the Lawndale neighborhood.
Damian Barnes, 22, was sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle when a gunman got in and shot him in the back, police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said.
Earlier in the weekend, Rey Dorantes, 14, was shot multiple times in the chest while standing on the porch of his home in the West Town neighborhood about 11:50 p.m. Friday, according to police. He would have turned 15 on Tuesday, according to a source.
Another teen was killed in a fatal shooting that happened about 6:40 p.m. Friday in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood. Victor Vega, 15, and another male were walking when an unknown male approached and fired shots, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. The attack was gang-related, a source said.
The two slain teens were the youngest of at least eight people shot in Chicago since Friday afternoon.
A 17-year-old was in an alley in South Normal Avenue about 12:30 p.m. Sunday when he was shot in the shoulder, according to police News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada.
A male walked into Rush University Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the hip about 2:50 a.m. on Sunday, police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said. He was shot in the Lawndale neighborhood, police said.
Two boys, aged 16 and 17, were wounded in a shooting in the Chatham neighborhood just after 4 p.m. Friday, police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala said.
Vice President Joe Biden will present his task force's gun policy recommendations Thursday – among them, most likely, to reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban. NBC's Peter Alexander reports.
The younger boy was shot in the thigh was transported to hospital in critical condition. The 17-year-old suffered a graze wound to the chest.
In an apparently unrelated shooting in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, a 17-year-old was shot in the torso and arm in a gang-related attack about 2 p.m.
And in the Uptown neighborhood, a 19-year-old man was shot in the buttocks about 12:50 p.m. near North Clarendon and West Buena avenues, police said. Ald. James Cappleman said in a Tweet that the shooting might have stemmed from a drug deal gone wrong.
Man with minor gunshot wound at Clarendon & Buena. May be due to drug deal gone bad. Area back to normal but area schools notified.
— James Cappleman (@JamesCappleman) January 11, 2013
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You want to see the future of the U.S.A.? Look at Chicago. Can Republicans be blamed for Chicago? Hahahahaha. The Democrat mayors and city officials who have run Chicago since 1931 probably blame the last Republican mayor, Bill Thompson. He was admittedly a crook but so were so many Democrats. But ask those people living in the blighted inner city of Chicago who is responsible for the horrendous crime and conditions and they will plainly say THE DEMOCRATS. They will tell you THERE ARE NO REPUBLICANS HERE. So let the Democrats in Washington have their way with gun control, housing, health, etc., etc., etc. and the conditions in Chicago will spread like a cancer across the land.
@CAS, yes, it is the pukebags fault. Not hard to understand that. People are still waiting for the jobs the pukebags promised two years ago, and that is besides all those jobs the trickle down from Reagan was suppose to produce.
Yep, all those killings in Chicago shows the gun laws really work, only criminals have guns there, right? Make stricter laws about guns in Chicago, and soon the population will be controlled by the gangs. Or else they will thin themselves out enough for the cops to finish the job.
Build tent cities and if you're in a gang you get arrested and sent there. Don't take their guns and maybe they can do the world a favor and kill each other off. I don't care the color their all trash.
The classic song from Simon and Garfunkle rings in my ear...a remake is in order; "where have you gone Barack Obama, our city turns it's deadly eyes to you, whoo, whoo, whoo..." appears that Chicago is in dire need of a professional community organizer. I will bet the farm that 90% of these gun crimes are committed by illegally acquired pistols. No registrations, no serial numbers (burnished off), all underground and in the hands of evil, self-trained sideways shooting non-respecters of life. Total gun ban in a city that witnesses more deaths than these "shadow" wars we are fighting on the other side of this screwed-up rock we live on. Hey Washington, got an idea for ya; you want to quell the violence? Go into cities like Chicago with the National Guard and conduct a dragnet complete sweep starting with the really bad-ass areas (that's if you insist in a complete gun ban.) Start where the trouble exists before even thinking of disarming private citizens who don't have the luxury you politicians have with security 24-7. I AM my security, and intend to remain so.
Long live the 2nd amendment!
Off to a good start to top 500 this year. Glad to see the social programs and gun control working so well! Fiesty redhead sure stays quiet when it pertains to her back yard. Im sure giving illegals drivers licences will help!
Chicago, wasteland of America...lol ..Yall trying to copy Detroit ?
As long as its gang-member killing gang-member,
or if you happen to collect a politician along the way, Ya ll go at it...!
Not law abiding fire arm owners doing the shooting. Take away the guns embolen the criminals. Look to Mexico can't have or own a gun there, stack the corpses like firewood.
Contrary to popular belief, it is legal for Mexican citizens to own firearms. It is guaranteed by law, but they are restricted to nothing over .38 cal, and can not own or possess any firearm that is or was used by the military. Licensed gun owners in Mexico are allowed only two firearms for legitimated defense purposes. They are also restricted to a maximum of 500 rounds of .22, 1,000 rounds of shotgun shells, and 200 rounds of any other round. They have to requalify for their license every two years. Gun must be registered, and private sales are prohibited. Open and Concealed carry are permitted only by licensed owners.
That plan sounds so similar to what the Left wants. I guess they must want to go back to third world status and not the American Dream and destination of foreigners like back in the 1940's-1990's.
Dawgfan........while I can't recite Mexican Law chapter and verse, I can absolutely say that I have travel in Mexico a lot and the average man or women you meet on the street believes it's against the law to have guns. Seems like even if it isn't the law, most people there believe it is. I've never met a Mexican who owned a gun...except a policeman. Of course, I wasn't talking to criminals, as I'm sure they probably don't care what the law is.
John,
It's probably the message they are getting from their drug cartel paid politicians. I have reviewed their laws as part of a trip thru Central America, and wanted to make sure I was not breaking any laws by having a firearm with me.
How is all that gun control working out for you Chicago. Not very well from where I am sitting. When you take the guns from law abiding citizens you leave the guns that are left in the hands of criminals. They don't abide by the law anyway so no help there.
How well has gun control worked for Chicago, New York and Washington DC? These are the cities with the toughest restrictions on gun ownership.
Drunk driving deaths are right up there w/gun homicides. Drunk driving laws prevent drunk driving? how bout prohibition? That stopped drunks also.
Pakistan, Afghanistan or Chicago...what's the difference. They are all third world locations.
Some day ya wonder!
Criminals do not abide by our laws. How is gun control going to stop them? Oh and there are 315 million guns in America already. Good luck with getting them
Values + morals = respect. Something that is missing with a lot of our younger people. Without strong family values and strong community values you have just what this article is all about. Out of control people that have no respect for anything. So rather than preach gun control, why aren't they preaching the need to work on values and strengthening our family. I hate reading about how some kid was such a good kid yet he's all caught up in gangs, drugs and trying to fit in while trashing everything around him. And then his parents want to sue someone because he was such a good kid. Which is what the sick media seems to like to write about.
Say what you want about taking prayer out of ones daily life. The consequences are just to clear to argue the need for putting it back where it was 50 years ago. Two generations later and it's pretty clear our Supreme Court isn't about protecting people.
@seejc, we don't need those stinking pukebag family values. We have seen what they have produced, such as Vitter, Craig, Foley, and so damn many others a person can't remember all of their names. Yes, the D's have some also, but the puke bags coined that phrase, so they own it. Just like the tea baggers, yep, they phrased it, they own the moniker of tea baggers, not Tea Party.
Oh yes, taking prayer out of daily life. Explain to use how that helped all those children being molested in God's house, you know CHURCH? Care to expalin that... didn't think so.
And if the media is so sick about it's writing, quit reading the excretement the media puts out. So easy to correct you low informed pukebags.
As just a microcosm of this whole issue:
My health club has signs that say "No Cell Phones"; yet the teenagers sit and text more than they work out, momopolizing the equipment...even right in front of the signs, then get all pi$$y if anyone says anything.
My GF was at the supermarket looking over some products; a (again) teenager stepped right in front of her and started looking at things...she said excuse me, and she said he just gave her a sneer and continued looking. Thankfully, I wasnt along or I'd probably be in jail now...but the little prick would have learned some manners...
That is the generation we are raising; and it is not just in crime riddled areas...
THE TOUGHEST GUN LAWS OF ANY LARGE CITY! Over 75% of crimes committed nationwide with guns were done so with guns that were obtained illegally.
If guns are banned in places like schools one nut with a single shot weapon and a pockej full of ammo can kill many. you cannot legislate behavior. If you could there would be no drug problem, prohibition would not have been repealed, etc....
Where are the mouth pieces called pigotry and fiesty???? are you telling me they have nothing to say??? Well, by reading their comments, they usually don't have anything intelligent to say...
They don't clock in at NBC News until 1000 hrs and then spend the first hour having sex with the network's peacock. Opps, I mean picking the birds brain for commentary ideas.
@KJB, if that is the case why read any of their postings. By the way, you fit right in with them when you mention their comments.
SallyAnn - to bad someone didn't introduce prayer into your life. You wirte as if you fit right in with the problem. I"ll pray for you.
@Sally Ann --- Must be a slow news or you, or either the batteries in your dildo are dead.
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This is encouraging news.
Without Chicago's gun ban, this number would have been at least 25.
Good job Rahm.
Leading by example is the best course.
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Joe Biden in 2016.
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Talking about Biden and his friends..
Is the same as talking about a Box of Rocks...lol
Anti gun libtard nuts this is your gun control at work. Take the guns out of law abiding citizens and then only the bad guys have guns. You tards will be the destruction of this country.
@Robert, you are incorrect Robert, the pukebags have already started our country on the road of destruction. The d's are just making sure the pukebags don't fail again.
Maybe the place was built on a graveyard , they moved the headstones but not the graves .
seems to me they want to blame the mentally ill, well, what if the mentally ill play their violent modern warfare or kill them zombies video games and smoke their so called medicinal weed. pushing their already damaged minds to the edge.
consider these games,music and weed before taking away the 2nd amendment rights.
but as for this article, seems chicago is plagued gang and/or thug violence. the police need to start enforcing the curfew of teens to start with, then hit up your known criminals and gangbangers searching for their illegal guns.
but in todays society, the law seems to side with the common criminal/gangbanger.
"Chicagostan,our Chicagostan, home to the libturd band! Never let a crisis go to waste.I'm positive ol' Emanual is working on a federal spending program to give everyone in the slums more of our money,just to be quite.The real losers in this joke of a government are the honest citizens caught in this hellhole,without the resources to defend themselves because of stupid gun control laws.
As horrible as it is, this is a perfect example of what happens when the law abiding don't have a way to defend themselves. The only people with firearms are the police (which use them to protect themselves) and criminals.
I'm guessing that in this story, not too many of the people shot would fall into the 'honest, law-abiding people' group.
How are those "gun laws" working for you now Chicago?? Keep up the good work. Maybe before long you will kill off all the creeps out on the street.
This is the Leadership that you voted for last year this is what the Democrast really want the rich to be protected while we the people hang out un protected.. Recall or impeach,, this is supposed to be a government of the people, by the people and for the people... Have some comman sense americans.. do something!!!!
Are they kidding? Crap like this happens daily and the only reason they are making a big hoopla over it is because of Sandy Hook and now the gov. wants to be the big dog on the porch and make 'new gun laws'. It won't change a bloody thing - people will STILL do what they do the way they do it. The one's coming up with these 'laws' don't have a clue about guns or anything else! Why don't they publish the crap about being strangled, stabbed, hung, etc.? Because they are in their 'feel good about themselves' frame of mind and they want to make the public think they are doing their job! Why start now, they never have in the PAST! Bunch of dumb ignorant dirtbags in the US gov. that don't know squat yet they think they know what to do - it will not change one thing! It will cause everyone to go 'underground!!! Watch and learn!
@Tag, you got it. It doesn't matter which party is in control, the 2% will be protected, and by making gun laws, more than is necessary, they think it will work out for them.
Got news for the 2%, and their low informed base, people are not going to give up their guns. People in Chicago haven't. Right now, it's just the gangs doing the shooting. Wait until those gangs hit a certain part or suburb where the law abiding citizens, who didn't turn in their weapons live.
Then you will see the results of what the people can do when they are attacked by the scum of both parties. I don't know of anyone who would surrender their weapons if such a law was passed. Hide them, and the ammo, but kept ready to use just in case.
And for you puke bag base, the D's also have, and know how to use their weapons also. Something to think about before you do all that tough internet talking, and then unable to back it up when the manure hits the fan. And yes, I think we will see a huge pile hit the fan. What is going to be a shame is that it doesn't have to happen, but the 2% have started it, they could cease, but they won't. And they won't win either.
If Chicago had more good paying job that do not require a collage degree, and are willing to train high school kids. Who wants to work for minimum wage and not be able to support their family? Maybe there would not be so many gangs. People are going to do what they have to do. To support their families.
Speak.....there are available Jobs in Chicago, however they are occupied by a huge Illegal contingency, willingly surrendered by the Black Community and Welfare Queens throughout the city. And please don't give me that BS about Minimum Wage.....The Illegals are taking Jobs that pay a LOT MORE than Minimum Wage, namely the Construction and services fields. THEY WILL PROBABLY OWN CHICAGO someday, pushing the Black Youth further into poverty. Guess whos' fault that is????
@Moderate, more talking points from the low informed. Yep, welfare queens???? Which one of your hero's coined that phase? Rush, O'liely, Beck?
Yes, tell us who's fault that is. Why don't you get off your lazy butt and go down there and show them the errors of their ways. Oh, that's right, you be all hat and no horns, right? One of them NATO people we hear about, "NO ACTION, TALK ONLY." Got it.
SallyAnn.....wipe your chin from all the oral diarrhea spewing from that hole in your face. Did your Mom have any kids that graduated from anything higher than 6th grade???? Bet YOU are a phucking WELFARE QUEEN, sucking up Societys' table scraps. ESAD.
@Moderate, must have hit a tender spot with you, right? No wonder you play with yourself, no self respecting woman would be caught dead with a loser like you.
FYI, I am very happy with my EE degree and two jobs. And no, I don't need welfare, and people can tell what your education level is. Not very high, that's for sure. Plus, you keep your diet for yourself, because that is what you like to do, shame you can't do the last part of it.
Yeh, SallyAnn...we are all impressed with your display of intelligence and knowledge. ROFLMFAO.........EE Degree ...ENEMA EXPERT??????
"collage degree" is that a degree in making collages? Sounds like a great skillset for a community activist. From what I hear, it's all you need to become president anymore. Whoever said that American opportunity is dead?