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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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Just like in probation times, when only the gangs had the liquor, when Obama his Socialist Democrats get finish only the gangs will have the weapons.
Every one of these killings can be traced to gangs and for the people who are alive and still old enough to remember probation, that was a socialist tactic and it backfired big time. That is what is going to happen with Obama and the new socialist party he really represents with the new gun control.
The gangs will get their weapons, it doesn't matter what laws are passed.
People are really talking about this subject. Think they will ever do anything? Joe Biden will be offering his suggestions soon, can't wait to hear them!
I'll bet you ten to one that these guys shot were members of a gang so don't give up your sympathy yet! They are too young to be randomly shot - they had to be acts of vengence from an enemy gang! This doesn't happen like this unless what I'm saying is accurate! They are getting even before things 'change' . Watch and see! Their names tell you what they are! Come on - see it for what it is! Rival gangs!
What a shock another 4 more years of ignorance.
I sure wish you jokers could have put a decent product in the Presidential campaigns.
2008 McCain/Palin Mc Cain is 77 years old now and didn't know the difference between a transplant and and implant. Sarah Palin has a daughter who is outspoken about teen pregnancy had a teen pregnacy.
I sure would have a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing after McCain had a heart attack that Sarah palin had her finger on the red button to start WWIII. Then you try to shove a candidate who was born with a silver spoon. Probably never had to look for a job in his life and was only concerned with his own people.
He has used corporate and tax loopholes to become even more rich.
His Bain Capital company made billions on loopholes,bankruptcies and layoffs.
Not just the US but the whole world wouldve have gone back to the stone age financially
if the government wouldn't have bailed out greedy fools.
Obama had liitle or no authority to control violence in Chicago.
Chicago has been a high crime area since prohobition.
When you sling obvious pot shots read the constitution. Not just the part that applies to you.
A President can't even select his own cabinet without Congressional approval.
I highly doubt he can solve all the problems in the US without them.
These people live in Mansions that border Washington D.C and they flat out tell you they don't give a Damn
about you. You all claim to be so Damn Patriotic. A true Patriot does what is good for America.
Obama is here for four more years and there is not a Damn thing you can do about it.
He may have not been the best choice. He was far from the worst.
You can continue to fight for 4 more years and blame Obama for everything or you can do the right thing and try to get the problems solved.
I have been getting a balance statement every month for the last 4 years for 13 cents on a closed account.
I wonder how much of a tax deduction they get on that ?
What a coincidence it involved 2 of the biggest culprits in the financial crisis.
If you wan't to find the REAL truth about the national debt you mught have to spend a few seconds
on google to go to National Debt Clock .org. I realize it is much easier to blame someone.
As far as your holier than thou Second Amendment. Since Arms is rather vague and the Bill of Rights is basically a contract between the Goverment and the people any third rate lawyer can break that contract.
They can define ARMS as a single shot musket if they want.
The newest and latest weapon is a sniper rifle for novices. For the small price of somewhere around $20,00 you can get it. What happened to skill and the thrill of the hunt ?
USA should declare gangs terrorist round them up and deport them to their aboriginal home lands. You know where their ancestors originated from say 800 years ago. That would cover all except aboriginal Americans.
Webster Dictionary: aborigine= original in-habitants.
@2468z, funny you are. Our country has no original in-habitants. Even the people they call native American's came from Russia way way back. But I agree, round them all up, give them uniforms, send them to Syria to help one side or the other.
By doing that, we get rid of the gangs, a lot of drug and other crime problems also. Then we also make each registered pukebag take one of the poor folks and help them get educated and be responsible for them finding jobs for them poor welfare people.
And also have to help any poor senior citizen also, you know, make sure they have a decent place to live, enough food, heat/air condition etc. Then maybe you pukebags would wake up and realize that their are people, who through no fault of their own, are hurting. Yet you pukebags want to cut what little lifeline they may have.
SallyAnn needs to stuff a bottle Kaopectate up her biz wazoo and try to cure the oral diarrhea spew of idiocy emitted from that brainless face.
@Moderate, must have hit a nerve. Can't handle the heat little shorthorn, get out of the kitchen. What elemantry grade did you say you were in, 4th grade? Hey, your momma's calling you, time for your nap, and don't forget your blankey to sleep with.
Yeh, SallyAnn...we are all impressed with your display of intelligence and knowledge. ROFLMFAO.........EE Degree ...ENEMA EXPERT??????
Gee whiz. After untold years of illegal immigration and the Government paying the least capable parents among us to breed the most children we have teens shooting each other. This is the world Obama and his Progressive allies have created and its coming to a neighborhood you live in very soon.
Who cares, its Chicago, gangster town and gangster run. Clean up City Hall and you'll clean up Chicago.
YEP, Just what we need now, MORE GUN CONTROL.!!!!!
the chicago police department needs to implement stop and frisk if they have any hope of curtailing the gun crime. every black and brown male under 30 if on the street needs to be searched for weapons.
thats right, you cant go into a courthouse without going through a metal detector and a search, same should be true on the streets of chicago.
your a complete moron, why don't you join the Chicago police force and show them how things are done.
oh look another obama leg humper on the internet. look up terry v ohio before you open your pie hole. why is it libs like you would rather see blacks and browns dead in the street rather than risk hurting their feelings by patting them down?
please people, lets not get off the real topic about gun control..the gang bangers are killing each other, that's a given, but i still don't see gang bangers walking into a crowed malls, schools or movie theaters shooting everyone in sight, lets face it, the gang bangers are no threat to anyone on this site, or any site.
they are a threat period, any persons carrying an illegal gun is a threat.enforce the law we have now.
you dont ignore the law and create new ones while you let someone get away with the old laws, thats dumb.
your just scared of a gang banger coming to get you, don't worry, i can assure you that you that it will not be a gang banger terrorizing you.
Steve wrote, "Gang bangers are no threat to anyone on this site or any site." I am so glad that you have provided such a sterling example of just how clueless the left truly is. You embody the absolute essence of liberal brainwashing and indoctrination. Please, by all means keep posting your disconnected blather. You only serve to strengthen the well deserved negative stigma that liberalism and its mindless minions have garnered. You must be one of the children that the village raised.
Tribal savages have to prove their manhood...once spear chuckers learned to use a gun there's no going back to the spear...killing other people is as much a part of their creed as rape and pillage...the tribal savages are the issue...capturing Africans and selling them into slavery, then turning them loose in a European family oriented society does nothing to change the culture of the savage...you want normal...then round the tribal savages up and take them back to their native environments in Africa...
where can we meet, so you can show us all how to do this?
2 am Chicago downtown any day...
Disgusting and reprehensible post, DEE!!! BTW..is TEN your IQ, Age , or Hat size???
The Chicago problem is racists...the Afghanistan War is racists...the tribal killings in Africa are racists...it's right in front of you in black and white...got any stories of youths shooting each other at 2am in rural America to share...
Dee...No, but have heard of a few caught phucking sheep.....should we pack them up and send them back to Europe???? You're not a sheep are you????
Bringing up your sexual fantasies is a bit off subject but not surprising coming from a liberal...
Liberal??? ROFLMAO....My friends would laugh their asses off at that comment directed at me. Can't stand Liberals , despise Right Wing Nut Jobs, and never voted a straight ticket in my entire life. About as moderate as they come you dipstick......uh oh.....dipstick indicates you are low on intelligence. Better get a tune-up...and for gods' sake get an oil change!!!!
And, BTW...your post is STILL disgusting , you racist beatch!!!
I can't believe all of your knowledge is going to waste just posting comments...you should be a community organizer in Chicago...
Guns don't kill, but a thug or the idiot who has a permit can, anytime he sees fit.
Good thing those idiots with apermit aren't the problem. But those thugs with guns and haters with their heads buried so far up their asses, all they can see is banning law abiding citizens their rights to protect themselves, they all make life dangerous for the rest of us.
YEAH, AND THEN THE LAW ABIDING CITIZEN'S NUTTY SON HAS ACCESS AND KILLS INNOCENT CHILDREN. You need to pull your head out and take a deep breath of reality
Obamaland is the progressive/liberal "City on a hill". Glad to see the Draconian gun laws working out so well.
Of course all the national news talks about is the "bad" guys with guns. But no, whenever someone protects themselves with a gun, that's all local news. Now i'm not justifying that we shouldn't have gun control, but the media really likes to add on to the flame. Now if someone broke into your house, would you rather try to fend him/her off with a gun or a knife? Enough said..
@Russian-American Girl, we do have gun control. GUN CONTROL is hitting what you are aiming at, plain and simple. If someone breaks into my home, I damn sure won't be using a knife, I'll be squeezing the trigger, and using GUN CONTROL. Let the cops sort it out after it's over. I'll tell my side, the evidence will be on my side, and of course, the punk breaking in will be talking with the devil, sure won't be talking to anyone on earth.
If the anti-gun nuts would shut up, and the redneck gun lovers (the ones who think Obama is going to take their toys away) would shut up, the media would quit fanning the flames. No body I know is going to surrender their weapons, no matter what laws are passed.
Well I don't expect them to take all of our guns away, of course.. For there is no greater (or should be no greater) power in this country than the constitution, and I sure as hell know my rights as a legal citizen. However, I honestly don't believe more gun control will do a thing.. There's too many crooked people in this world, and they'll get their hands on anything they "need" to get what they need to get done.
As for the media.. I don't believe this site has posted the story of the woman who protected herself and her three children from a robber.. (with a gun).
Just after this past Christmas, it was announced Chicago had its 500th murder! Yes, 500, in 2012. I fully understand the concern over guns in the wrong hands, and you'd think Chicago would be concerned about it. Well, all this latest gun hype is just a pile of BS to remove guns from lawful, registered, peaceful citizens.'
The greatest majority of gun crimes is committed by a very small percentage of people. We know who they are. People mock the NRA for saying it's our culture. I hate to admit it, but it is true. We grow up now watching so much violence in movies, TV... just listen to the pure hate in rap music. No wonder teenagers are so violent today.
Chicago is not in the top 10 percent of gun killings because of the political ramification's, other wise Chicago would be one of the deadliest cities in the united States but can't have that because that's where Obama got got his pass to the presidency from, where he was a street organizer read the papers and find out for your self.
Those pesky guns are at it again, shooting people "right & left" (no pun intended)..............if we could only figure out how the mind of a gun works...................
ya know maybe you should take away all those extra-large soft drinks instead of the guns -- ????
rocket....Mayor Bloomberg tried that in NYC...it led to the huge increased sale of smaller soft drinks.
Amazing... Someone things that stricter gun laws in Chicago would make a difference in the number of violent crimes. I lived in Chicago for 40 years. I visit family there often. I can tell you exactly whats going on there. Chicago is under siege by drug wars, BAD GUYS. They are turf fighting for drug income. Since the economy has reduced the number of drug customers, drug dealers are killing their competitors for their customer base. THAT"S what is happening in Chi Town! Bad guys with guns. They will always have guns and kill with them even if you stack a million laws in front of them. They don't care a cat's whisker about your laws! Never will!
Amen, as always, enforce the immigration,drug and current gun laws, stop ignoring the problem.
Your laws? Not our laws?
Your laws, our laws. Call them what you may, but I lived there and know that gun laws don't make a difference and new laws will make no impact. NONE AT ALL.
you people act as if everyone is carrying the so called "assault rifles"....the common criminal/gangbanger carry pistol and shotguns.
Yeah yeah, this is just horrible, especially considering the ages of these street thugs, who have lived a life of crime their entire lifes.
They rob, they steal, they beat old people up and steal from them, they bully, they lie, they sell dope to make a living, and all of the other great ways of life that the streets offer.
Hmm I wonder where the fault lies, with the parent/parents, with the school systems, with the communities or just WTF.
Maybe if the friggin a$$ wipes in our corrupt congress would stop giving pakistan 3 billion dollars a year to buy their what the frick you call it, they still hate us and kill us every chance they get, maybe if out crooked congress would channell more funds into the youth of this country and stop paying other countries so we can go in there and murder their people and steal their resources, then just maybe all of these teenagers would not now be dead.
OUR CONGRESS IS THE CROOKEST BODY OF GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD.
skimming the article & not reading all these posts, I'd bet 99% of these shootings are gangbangers & 1%(if that) someone who is at rock bottom & lost it. There isn't 20 normal gun owners a day that even consider shooting someone.
9! Looks like shootings are down in Chicago.
Just like fish in a barrel. And, to think that Chicago is the home of the DemocRAT machine that is running (ruining) our country. God help us.
Really, just knowing that we have a potus, a TWO term potus at that, running (ruining) our nation from within, that came out of a chit hole like $hitcago and sat in the one of the highest seats of leadership in that state, totally explains EVERYTHING.
This is why the life span of Men in the US is so low compared to other countries.
Yeah... blame life span averages on gang bangers blowing each other away over turf or just for $hits and giggles.
I submit that street vernmin killing each other should NOT be included in natural caused death statistics... except in Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Washington DC,.............................................
But look at Chicago, The way it is Shooting is a natural death!
GM XD.........Exactly, the life span of all men in the US with the express exception of gang bangers is something like 74?