Chicago Mayor blames massacre on guns

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This sums it up for me

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3 killed, including 2 teens, and 6 injured in weekend gun violence

SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE


January 13, 2013 9:06AM



Updated: January 14, 2013 1:37AM

Three people were killed and six others wounded in Chicago gun violence over the weekend. Many of the shooting victims, including two of those killed, were teenagers.

In the latest shooting, a 17-year-old boy was injured about 12:30 p.m. Sunday in a drive-by shooting in the 11700 block of South Normal in the West Pullman neighborhood, police said. The teen was in the alley when a dark-color sedan drove by and someone opened fire, police News Affairs Hector Alfaro said. A family member drove the teen to Roseland Community Hospital, where he was listed in good condition with a gunshot wound in his left shoulder, Alfaro said. The motive for the shooting was not yet known and no one was in custody. Area South detectives were investigating.

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At 12:50 a.m. Sunday, a man was shot and killed in the 1300 block of South Harding Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood. Damian Barnes, 22, was sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle when an unknown male got in and shot him in the back, police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said.

Barnes, of the 4200 block of West Van Buren Street, was pronounced dead at 2:49 a.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

Earlier in the weekend, Rey Dorantes, 14, was standing on the porch of his home in the 2400 block of West Augusta Boulevard in the West Town neighborhood about 11:50 p.m. Friday when two shooters walked up and opened fire, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

He was shot multiple times in the chest and died at the scene, police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer said.

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And they want to take the guns away from the good people...

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By Naomi Nix and Patrick Svitek

Tribune reporters

5:09 p.m. CST, January 17, 2013
Pamela Wright had dropped off her son at Chicago State University for a high school basketball game and was waiting for him to get back in touch when she got the awful news.

Her son Tyrone Lawson had been shot, apparently as he ran from a fight that had spilled out of the gymnasium Wednesday night.

"Instead of looking forward to prom, I'm looking for an insurance policy to bury him," Wright said this afternoon.

"It hurt so bad," said Lawson's grandmother, Barbara VanHughs, 70, clutching a photo of Lawson and crying. "My baby."

Police say an argument broke out while players were in a handshake line after the game between Simeon Career Academy and Morgan Park High School. The dispute spilled into the parking lot near 95th Street and King Drive and someone pulled out a gun and shot Lawson around 9:30 p.m., officials said.

Lawson died from multiple gunshot wounds in a homicide, the Cook County medical examiner’s office determined this afternoon. Lawson was shot twice in the back while running away, said Kurtistein Bailey, his 41-year-old aunt. Amid the chaos, someone knelt down and told Lawson to get up but he couldn't move, his aunt said.

"This was at the school where his mom thought he was safe," Bailey said. "His mother thought he was safe there. That's why she let him go."

Lawson had sent a text message to this mother earlier in the day, asking if he could go to the game. "Mom, can I go to the basketball game? It's only $10," Lawson had asked, according to VanHughs.

"I texted him back 'K,' and he said 'light' because he always said 'light' instead of 'right,'" said Wright, 52.

Before she dropped him off at the game, Wright gave him $17 -- $10 for the game and $7 to spend -- and told him to "be careful."

His mother waited for him to call back or text her, she said.

A fight broke out at the end of the game, and video shows security getting players off the court. It was unclear what the fight was about. Nothing outside ordinary bumps and physical contact appeared to have happened during the game between the two schools, which are located on Vincennes Avenue about 30 blocks apart.

Around 8:30 p.m., Wright wanted to check on her son, but her 53-year-old fiance, Gregory Young, assured her Lawson was "all right." About an hour later, Wright learned from a relative that Lawson had been "hit twice in the back" and died, she said.

University police issued a message to its officers, asking them to watch for a Jeep. It was pulled over east of the school and two people were taken into custody, officials said. Police said they found a gun inside the Jeep.

The Jeep's owner told the Tribune this afternoon that she was not aware of any gun in the car. "I was not there," the owner said. "I don't know what happened."

Wright said she and Young were planning on telling Lawson today that they were getting married next week. Now, the two are tying the knot Feb. 26, Lawson's birthday.

CPS spokeswoman Marielle Sainvilus said the district worked with the university and Chicago police to provide security at the game.

Sainvilus said there was a significant security presence both inside and outside the gym, and there had been screening to prevent anyone from carrying guns into the game. All fans were also searched.

The university released a statement Thursday morning saying it was "deeply saddened by the tragic shooting death."

“(Chicago Public Schools) periodically uses the university’s athletic facility to provide a neutral setting for student sporting events. This is the first such incident to occur on the campus of Chicago State University where CPS students have played many times over the last three years," the statement said.

"Additional security is provided by the university and all external partners during high school sporting events. Arrests have been made and university officials are awaiting the outcome of a full investigation to learn details about the shooting incident.”

Relatives said Lawson was an honor student at Morgan Park and hoped to land a ComEd apprenticeship after graduation. They remembered him as "high-spirited" and "loved by all," a popular student with friends on the basketball team.

Bailey said Lawson loved animals, and took care of snakes, an iguana and turtles over the years. His aunt said he loved animals so much he gave up his bedroom for his 2-year-old dog, Midnight, and slept on a futon in another room.

VanHughs said she helped raise Lawson while his mother traveled for her job. Family members described the two as having a strong relationship.

"He was definitely a momma's boy," Bailey said. "They were very close and he was her only child."

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Chicago woman loses 4th child to gun violence


CHICAGO (AP) — At least five people were gunned down Saturday in Chicago, including a 34-year-old man whose mother had already lost her three other children to shootings.

Ronnie Chambers, who was his mother Shirley's youngest child, was shot in the head while sitting in a parked car on the city's West Side. A 21-year-old man who was also in the car was wounded, police said.

Shirley Chambers, whose two other sons and daughter were shot in separate attacks more than a decade ago, was left grieving again on Saturday, WLS-TV reported (1 dead after West Side shooting | Mother mourns loss of fourth child to gun violence | abc7chicago.com ).

"Right now, I'm totally lost because Ronnie was my only surviving son," Chambers said.

Shirley Chambers' first child, Carlos, was shot and killed by a high school classmate in 1995 after an argument. He was 18. Her daughter Latoya, then 15, and her other son Jerome were shot and killed within months of one another in 2000.

"What did I do wrong? I was there for them. We didn't have everything we wanted but we had what we needed," she asked Saturday.

Chambers said despite this latest tragic chapter in her life, she's not bitter or angry.

"They took my only child. I have nobody right now. That's my only baby," she said.

A few hours after Ronnie Chambers was killed, a gunman opened fire on three men near a South Side eatery, killing two of them and wounding the third, police said.

On Saturday afternoon, detectives were called to the scene of another shooting in which a man in his 30s and a teenager were shot to death. There had been no arrests.

Chicago's homicide count eclipsed 500 last year for the first time since 2008. As grim as it is, Chicago's homicide rate was almost double in the early 1990s — averaging around 900 — before violent crime began dropping in cities across America.

Last year's increase, though, stood in sharp contrast to New York, where homicides fell 21 percent from 2011, as of early December.

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7 Killed Saturday, 6 Wounded in Chicago Weekend Violence
Chicago Suntimes ^ | 01/28/2013 8:42 AM

Posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 9:55:35 AM by ExxonPatrolUs

Seven people were killed and another six wounded in weekend violence in Chicago — including two separate double-homicide shootings that occurred about 12 hours apart.

The seven homicides all occurred Saturday, making the day one of the deadliest in recent memory.

The most recent happened in the South Shore neighborhood at 11:50 p.m. Saturday in the 2500 block of East 73rd Street, police said.

Willie Wilson, 32, was stabbed to death during a domestic dispute at his home, authorities said. He was pronounced dead on the scene with a stab wound to the chest, authorities said.

About 10 p.m. Saturday night, 38-year-old Norman Stokes was shot to death during an argument inside a home in the 7000 block of South Carpenter Street in the Englewood neighborhood, authorities said. Stokes, of the 6000 block of South Aberdeen Street, was dead at the scene, authorities said.

As with all of Saturday’s homicides, by the time officers arrived the man was dead, police said. No one is in custody as Area South detectives investigated.

Earlier in the evening two males were killed about 4 a.m. on the West Side in the second double-homicide of the day. Officers, called to the 4200 block of West Congress Parkway in West Garfield Park, found a teen boy and a man dead in the street with bullet wounds to the head, police said.

Dimitri Buford, 32, of the 1400 block of North Sedgwick, and Antonio Fenner, 16, of the 1440 block of West 15th Street, were both dead on the scene, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

About twelve hours before, two men were killed and another was wounded when a masked gunman walked up to them outside a Bridgeport neighborhood hamburger stand early Saturday and unleashed a barrage of bullets. The shooting outside Kevin’s Hamburger Heaven, in the 500 block of West Pershing Road, was the second time in four months that someone has been killed outside an all-night restaurant in Bridgeport.

Customers were inside the restaurant around 4 a.m. when the three men went outside to smoke as they waited for their order. A man in a mask ran up to them, opening fire at close range before running off, according to police.

Alan Smiley, 31, of the 8000 block of South Burnham Avenue, and another man, thought to be in his 30s, were dead on the scene, according to the medical examiner’s office. The third man was taken to Stroger Hospital with gunshot wounds to an arm and his abdomen, police said.

Earlier Saturday, a man was fatally shot and another was wounded while sitting in a vehicle on the West Side. It happened around 2:15 a.m. Saturday in the 1100 block of South Mozart Street in Lawndale. Ronnie Chambers, 34, was shot in the head and died at the scene, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

Chambers, a convicted felon and reputed Gangster Disciple gang member, was the fourth sibling in his family to die a violent death, according to the police. His other siblings also died from gunshot wounds, a police source said.

Chambers had 29 arrests and four convictions, including multiple felonies for drug dealing and weapons violations, according to another source.

The 21-year-old man shot with Chambers was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with gunshot wounds to the left shoulder and buttocks, police said.

Hours later Saturday morning, a man was shot in the leg during an attempted robbery in an alley in the 4800 block of West Van Buren Street. A man got out of an older brown car and tried to rob the victim. During a brief struggle, the victim heard a gunshot and realized he had been shot, police said.

He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound to his right leg, police said.

On Friday night, a 23-year-old man was shot in the leg in Grand Boulevard on the South Side. The man was in the 0 to 100 block of West 47th Street around 9:55 p.m. when shots were fired and he was hit, police said. The man was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition, police said.

Earlier Friday night, a 32-year-old man was shot in the butt in Logan Square, according to the police.

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1 posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 9:55:42 AM by ExxonPatrolUs
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That’s fairly mild, by Chicago standards.



2 posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 9:58:58 AM by dfwgator
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This can’t be true. Chicago controls guns, and is run by Democrats, so it must be a great city, right?

The media won’t notice, no one will care, and the liberals will retreat to their gated communities.

Welcome to the USSA.



3 posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 9:59:18 AM by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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Instead of reading your article I will wait for the six o clock news to report on this warzone.



4 posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 10:00:59 AM by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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Will the last law abiding citizen to leave Chicago please bring the flag ??



5 posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 10:06:50 AM by bestrongbpositive
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If we had more laws this wouldn’t of happened!



6 posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 10:06:55 AM by Altura Ct.
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Smoking kills at the “Hamburger Heaven” bump.



7 posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 10:11:04 AM by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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Wowee! A Democrat mayor and very strict gun laws and people are still gunned down! Yep, gotta love Democrats and gun control! Last I read from Jackass Emanuel, he was telling the gangbangers to go find vacant alleys to shoot each other in!



8 posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 10:11:12 AM by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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When we dream of a Great City, it sure as hell ain’t Chicago.



9 posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 10:27:23 AM by Tupelo (Hunkered down & loading up)
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Listening to Chicago police scanner is a trip. Available online. One guy that had been car jacked waited three hours for police to show up.

Cops en route to a park where a significant violent disturbance was taking place were told to delay their arrival at the park because needed backup from other patrol units was delayed due to other calls.



10 posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 10:55:47 AM by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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It’s a damn good thing Chicago doesn’t allow firearms to its civilians.



11 posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 10:58:13 AM by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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Listening to Chicago police scanner is a trip. Available online. One guy that had been car jacked waited three hours for police to show up.

Cops en route to a park where a significant violent disturbance was taking place were told to delay their arrival at the park because needed backup from other patrol units was delayed due to other calls.



12 posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 12:31:00 PM by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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while he waited he probably ahd his wallet stolen next and then when the next robbers came along, they got mad he had no money so they beat him up.

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send more bullets to chi town eventually they will get tired of this terribe situation they are in and the people will rise up and take thier city back

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killing here everyday also but in different areas now was bad in certain spots and the people are riseing up and moveing the drugs out of the streets

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I don't need an AR15 to go Deer Hunting, but I don't need a bunch of Politicos messin' with my RIGHTS either. Ban stupid people not guns.

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Four separate shootings took place in the span of 90 minutes Friday evening in Chicago, the first coming less than an hour after Air Force One departed O’Hare Airport after President Obama spoke on the culture of gun violence and economic decay that plagues many cities, including his hometown.


An hour earlier, Obama wrapped up a personal speech at Hyde Park Academy on the South Side, where he mourned the killing of Hadiya Pendleton, the teen who visited Washington for his inauguration just a week before she was gunned down not far from the school. “This is not just a gun issue. It’s also an issue of the kinds of communities that we’re building, and for that we all share a responsibility as citizens to fix it,” he said.

Obama had said little about Chicago’s murder problem — there were more than 500 in 2012 — before Friday, instead focusing on mass shootings in his post-Newtown gun control push. But at a high school just two miles away from his Chicago home, he acknowledged the depths of devastation that street violence generated in the city.


“Last year, there were 443 murders with a firearm in this city, and 65 of them were 18 and under. That’s the equivalent of a Newtown every four months,” he said. “That’s precisely why the overwhelming majority of Americans are asking for some common sense proposals to make it harder for criminals to get their hands on a gun.”

Chicago already has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, but some legislators say looser gun laws in neighboring states cancel out their efforts.

According to the Chicago Tribune, 3 men and a woman were the victims of Friday night’s 90-minute crime wave. The woman died; the men did not.

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