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Courtesy the Pendleton family
Hadiya Pendleton and friends during their trip to Washington for President Obama's inauguration.
Chicago cops have been deluged with tips about who might have shot Hadiya Pendleton, the high school sophomore killed a week after she performed during President Barack Obama's inaugural festivities.
"Fortunately, the community is stepping up and giving us everything that they've got, from rumors to whatever they know," Police Supt. Garry McCarthy told NBC Chicago on Friday.
"Something's gonna pan out."
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has appealed to city residents to drop the no-snitching credo of the streets and come forward with any leads about Pendleton's killer.
Police and clergy also have offered a $40,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the gunman who opened fire on a group of teens gathered in a park after school Tuesday, apparently mistaking them for rival gang members.
Pendleton, 15, was shot in the back, collapsed a block away and died at a hospital. The honor student quickly became the face of Chicago's stubborn gun problem.
The city leads the nation in gun seizures, and its murder rate has been edging up while other cities have been trending downward. More than 500 people were slain there last year, and last month was its bloodiest January in a decade.
On Friday morning, a woman was shot and killed when a van pulled alongside her van on Lake Shore Drive and a gunman fired up to 14 rounds. Police said the shooting was related to gang and drug activity.
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- After Hadiya's death, Chicago to put 200 more cops on the street
- Chicago shooting victim starred in anti-gang video
View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com.
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bet he's a gang bangin' black. That's OK though, he's still a "good" boy.
A couple of gay boy scout leaders outta be able to sniff em' out, as persistent as they are.
Snort!
us & them said it;
can't we start banning gangs! here here i agree. it may sound all tough when the police chief says to the media"we are going to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law" ahhh everytime i hear this i just fall over laughing my ass off!!
like any gang member is really going to start changing his ways after hearing that? ooh i'm so scared.....................we all know the difference between right and wrong and it's about time "we the people" determine what is "right and wrong" and clean house immediately! if it looks like a duck, shoot it.
Where are all of the undercover agents infiltrating these gangs and criminal enterprises?
Through transfers and deployments, military-affiliated gang members expand their culture and operations to new regions nationwide and worldwide, undermining security and law enforcement efforts to combat crime. Gang members with military training pose a unique threat to law enforcement personnel because of their distinctive weapons and combat training skills and their ability to transfer these skills to fellow gang members.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-gang-assessment-us-military-2011-10#ixzz2JglZeVEt
this from an FBI report.
I haven't read the comments. I'm just not in the mood for political bs. What I see is a happy, well-adjusted, high-achieving young girl who will never realize her full potential because some banger with a gun decided it was a good day to kill someone. I grieve the loss of a promising young life and wish her family some comfort at this terrible time.
Unless we as a people bring morality and ethical behavior back to our society, this will only get worse. All these calls to tolerate every possible type of lifestyle people want to live breeds hate and anger. Hate and anger brings death.
Steve, can you please me more specific? Come on now; stop beating around the bush and let us all know exactly what are the tolerated lifestyles that breed hate and anger. If you're talking about the criminal lifestye, I totally agree with you. If your talking about oher knds of lifestyles, what are they? I await your reply.
I'm talking about tolerating lack of morality. Parents don't expect their kids to do anything. They let them smart off to anyone, be lazy, and teach them to expect society will give them everything they want. It begins to breed hate, anger, and resentment in many people.
I realize now using the word tolerate may have led someone to think of homosexuality. That was not my intention. I'm talking about tolerating a me-first attitude people have begun to adopt. These gang-bang killers are no different. They put their desires above all else and see others in society as the ladder to their achievements, rather than people.
I have to admit that I thought you might also be referring to the gay lifestyle. Thank you for clarifying your remarks. I totally agree.
Clearlight, well gays are dirty, but that's not specifically relevant here...
although I heard fruits have more interactions with the police, more arrests etc, maybe due to their inherent mental problems? Just speculating.
If they do catch them, they got good chance at being released by mistake in Cook County.
People like this should automatically get life in prison.
You mean Chicago is starting to realize that it's a lot more about killers than their tools?
How can this be since chicago has the toughest gun laws in the nation ???? Also the highest BLACK population in the nation !! coincidence ????
I applaud the residents of Chicago who are abandoning the "no snitch" code they have lived by for too long
What a shame this beautiful young woman had to die. Lets pray that someone comes forward with the information to put the animal who did this away for ever
This is the starting point that brings and end to the senseless violence we see all to frequently.
When communities come together and stand united against criminals they will begin to flush them out.
No snitch code...
What kind of human being can keep quiet about something as horrible and dishonorable as taking an others life? If I knew someone killed somebody else, There's no way I could not tell somebody. They're all victims of their own silence!
This will not be a starting point for anything. Once the media and politicians have gotten all they can from this tragic event nothing more will ever be heard. The circle continues on a downward spiral. On the names and players change.
You'd never know Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. I guess they just need more of what isn't working. Something must be done, gun control is something, therefore it must be done. Glad I live in VA where you don't need a permit to carry a gun.
Jesse J says the guns are coming from the white communities outside of Chicago. I knew this was the white mans fault and not black gangs
Oh VA. Just a few years ago they banned open containers. Now you have to stop to drink a beer. If it wasn't for the crazy fringe Republicans it would be a fun state.
MAH; You might want to look at who actually runs Chicago and Illinois in general, they all have a big D next to their names so I know you were just joking about the Republican thing......
I like how they blame the white man for everything that happens to the blaks, what else is new it is the everyone fault but the blak peoples....
I wonder how they are going to neighboring states and buying guns, unless they have a drivers license from that state they are not allowed to buy them, you are also supposed to have an address from the purchase state so I guess they are not being legally purchased in other states!!!
we need a prison in Afghanistan or turkey... this will crap on crime and if released make it even harder,... to immigrate back ..to me if you loes even one right ...you should also lose your american right to live here
thats gun control ... save our 2nd amendment and my taxes yahoooo!
It is my understanding that the U.S. as a member of the UN plan to reduce the world population to no more than five hundred million people. They (the UN) plan on using disease , war , and starvation to accomplish their goals. Looks as if it is working well in Chicago.
i read that too but seems to ignored by the millions ... like they say if you didnt read it before it wont happen now ... some things are better left unsaid than to be called a dooms-sayer
and be called a
I hear so many people commenting about how bad Chicago is, but I don't hear anyone from Chicago acknowledging it. The first step is to admit you have a problem. If I were the President, I'd be calling the Mayor of Chicago and asking him what the hell's going on? If they can't handle the problem, and it certainly looks like they can't, maybe it's time for some intervention, i.e. the National Guard.
Bad PR to have the National Guard on a Chicago city street. Can you imagine the photos? My money is on the Guard. The gangs would be eradicated in weeks. Of course they would be dead and add to the Chicago murder numbers. Can't win
Following 1992 the murder rate has been decreasing, with an occasional spike, like last year. In 2010 the Supreme Court allowed citizens to own guns. So it must be all those mentally ill people killing everyone. Nope, it's the drugs and gangs, and the gun is the weapon of choice since it gives the cowards (gangs or anyone else) an easy escape from the scene.
"Besides its gangland problems, Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s.[1] Murders in the city peaked first in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 per 100,000.
Following 1992, the murder count slowly decreased to 641 in 1999. In 2002, Chicago had fewer number of murders but a significantly higher murder rate than New York or Los Angeles"
an' it's sho' nuff down to like 530 now or something.
They be killing less in Chicago than in the old days. Wow---970 in 1974!
The counterculture/drug culture scum coupled with soft crime laws in the 60's and early 70's shot the murder rate way up.
Then the backlash and rightwing anti-crime policies took over in the 80's and 90's and the murder rate started dropping in 1991.
1968-1991 was a bad time for the urban areas. Since then, things are much better. Still too violent though.
I am stunned information is coming from the public. This is Chicago. If the witnesses survive to testify this will be a first. With the no snitching to the police mentality in the black neighborhoods i worry for their safety. Is it me , I have not heard any outcry from the rap and hip hop stars encouraging people to come forward. Where are you Dr,Dre, Jay Z, etc. A talented black girl is dead and thugs are loose. Choose a side now. This is he community you profess to care about
legalize pot and run the punk gangsters out of business...then bring military into these scum holes and wipe them out like we'd do to any other countries putrid punk gang bangers...shot a girl in the back what a bunch of pussys.
Ever here of Death Wish movies---exactly what I'd do if something happened to my daughter by some piece of crap @!$%#.
I believe Nampa, Idaho has the same "stubborn gun problem", and even much higher rates of gun ownership, and yet the murder rate per capita is much smaller...why? Could it be that it's not the guns that's the problem?
Chicago has a murder problem. Other places have more guns and less murder. It has a people problem. Too many thugs wanting to kill.
None of which is the gun's fault.
I hope that the slimy scum bag responsible is caught, tried, convicted by a jury of their peers, and is sentenced to life with out parole. Never ever to walk the earth as a free person again. You dirty reckless piece of crap. They will be caught.
The killer should have all his fingers cut off to not pull a trigger again and then sit in jail for rest of his life!
bigpic---now we're talking
Until the "killer" is made an example of to deter anyone else from packing a firearm, the innocent ones will be ones or families suffer.
Emmanuel was given Chicago as a gift for helping Obama craft an election win and a first term WH. He is not remotely qualified to run Chicago.
MAH29 ---ditto
This is a tragedy for this young lady. All we have to do now is wait for the gun bans and people having to register their guns. Then when these gangbangers and criminals register their weapons and surrender what is not allowed the weapons can be checked and the criminal caught. It might take awhile but he will eventually be caught and brought to justice.
bbritt--thats about the most foolish thing ever--do you really think criminals care about the law--nutcase
hahahhahah
Hey, Ronyv, look up the word sarcasm and then read my post again. You might get it then.
Please change your screen name to Pollyanna.Dumbest thing I ever read. That's why they are the criminals. They have the illegal weapons. They deal drugs. They rob and kill. Hence. the criminals. JEEZ. But if they are asked nicely.
BB--sorry but as you can see others think you are being real---the reason this girl is dead is because
of people that actually think like this....like the President n Chi Towns mayor
Sarcasm
Sorry, we must have a lower opinion of our fellow posters than I imagined. I thought you were serious.On the other hand I know there were some who agreed with you
Want to stop the revolving door of justice? USE THE DEATH PENALTY.
this POS that did this crime definately deserves it, to open fire on a crowd of kids in a park ? ya find him and fry 'im