Multiple Shootings in Grand Crossing

Supt. Gary Mc Carthy told President Obama that the weather has nothing to do with the shootings. Are you sure about that Gary hmmmmmmmmm let see how many shootings happened when the temprature was below 0 or even 1 degree above. I'll tell you none but the weather hit to nearly 65 above zero and this story below is what happened.

All through the afternoon Tuesday, Kimberly Common stood crying near the body of her oldest son Devin, the second son to be lost to gun violence in a little more than a year.

"It's in my face, it's all over," Common said of her pain.

Another son Antonio had been shot and killed in October 2011, and Common said she was still reeling from that loss when she heard Devin was one of three men shot in the 7500 block of South Champlain Avenue around noon Tuesday.

"I'm not even healed from that," she said, tears streaming down her face.

Just yesterday, she had visited her mother in the hospital and they talked about how much they miss Antonio, Common said.

Late this morning, Devin left the house to get coffee and never returned. "I'll be back, I'm going to the store," she said Devin told her as he headed out the door. "That's what my (other) son said."

Devin's sister, Jermaka Common, 26, stood near her mother, crying softly as others embraced her. She said she last saw her brother Monday and told him she loved him.

"This didn't make no sense," Jermaka Common said. "For him to get gunned down like that, this is not fair at all."

The shooting happened around 12:10 p.m. around 75th Street and Champlain Avenue, but one of the victims was found in the 7500 block of South Langley, according to Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.

Common was dead on the scene, according to family and Langford. The two others, both males, were taken in serious to critical condition to Stroger Hospital.

Police had one person in custody and were searching for another person, according to police, citing preliminary information. A gun was recovered.

Devin's brother Antonio, 23, was shot in his head and neck and found dead in an alley in the Park Manor neighborhood in October of 2011. Police said he was with two other people in the 7100 block of South Rhodes Avenue when he went into the alley and someone opened fire.

At about 1pm almost an hour after the 75th street shooting another person was gunned down on 71st and King Drive. I guess gun laws really worked it is keeping people from dieing hmmmmmmmmm funny Chicago has the best gun laws in the country but yet over 500 people died and the way 2013 started it may be more and yet again more gun laws in place by a president if the current laws aren't working then new laws aren't going to work either the only thing that will work and I'm throwing this out there ah Concealed carry I mean it worked in Detriot why not Chicago Just saying.

Indiana Speaks out on Obama's 23 Executive Orders

Lt. Gov. Simon creates firearms working group

CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon wants new state lawmakers to learn about different perspectives on gun ownership.
Simon is starting a Firearms Working Group and plans to announce members on Tuesday. The group will be made up of freshmen state senators and representatives. They will meet with gun owners, hunters, law enforcement and families of gun violence victims.
A federal appeals court panel ruled last month that Illinois' ban on concealed weapons is unconstitutional. Attorney General Lisa Madigan is appealing the ruling. But lawmakers still face a deadline to pass a bill legalizing concealed carry.
The group also will visit a shooting range in southern Illinois to learn about firearm safety. The lieutenant governor says lawmakers should fully understand all facets of firearm and gun issues

SPRINGFIELD — Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon is inviting new lawmakers from across Illinois to work with her on a concealed carry law.
A federal appeals court panel ruled last month that Illinois’ ban on concealed weapons is unconstitutional. Attorney General Lisa Madigan is appealing the ruling. But lawmakers still face a 180-day deadline to pass a bill legalizing concealed carry.
Simon says she wants new legislators from both parties to join her firearms working group.
Illinois lawmakers tend to split along geographic rather than party lines on gun issues, with Democrats from outside Chicago aligning with Republicans. ...

Wildebeast escaped once agian shooting up the city

At least eight people were shot across Chicago on Monday night and Tuesday morning, authorities said, after two others were shot Monday afternoon.

About 2 a.m. a 26-year-old man was shot above the knee after he stepped onto a porch in the 2200 block of West 71st Street in the West Englewood neighborhood to smoke, police said. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in stable condition.

Someone inside a car shot at a 37-year-old man in the 2400 block of West Huron Street in the West Town neighborhood about 12:15 a.m., police said. He was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.

Two men, 31 and 34, were shot in front of a gas station in the 3300 block of West Washington Boulevard in East Garfield Park, the same place where a clerk was killed last summer, according to police. Both were taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County and both are expected to survive, police said. They were sitting in a car when someone parked their van in the street about 10:30 p.m., got out, walked up and shot them, police said.

Another man, 38, was shot while driving in the 7200 block of South Champlain Avenue in the Park Manor neighborhood about 9:45 p.m. He crashed into a pole after sustaining a wound to the lower back, police said, and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center.

Just before 9 p.m. someone shot a 23-year-old man in the abdomen in the 8300 block of South Carpenter Street, police said. The man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center from near 83rd and Morgan Street, where he walked to after getting shot.

A 26-year-old man who had been shot in the right arm in the 2100 block of North Tripp Avenue in the Hermosa neighborhood was found a couple blocks away on Fullerton Avenue, police said. He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition after he was shot about 7 p.m., police said.

A 20-year-old man was left in serious condition after someone shot him a few times in the back in the 6200 block of South Artesian Avenue about 5:10 p.m. in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

Maywood monkey going back to the zoo to be properly secured

 

 

Police say a Maywood man stabbed a 32-year-old man to death Saturday night in the South Shore neighborhood.
Reginald Duckworth is charged with first degree murder. Duckworth, of the 1700 block of West Madison in Maywood, is accused of stabbing Willie Wilson to death inside his home on the 2500 block of East 73rd Street.
Duckworth was at a party when he’s alleged to have stabbed Wilson about 10:50 p.m., police said. He was pronounced dead on the scene about an hour later, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Wilson was the 7th person killed in Chicago on Saturday.
Duckworth is due in court Tuesday. Check back for more information.

Illegal with Illinois DL killed a person while she was DUI

Police say a Humboldt Park woman was intoxicated when her car struck and killed two people changing a tire in the Parkview neighborhood Saturday night.
Delia Aguila was charged with two counts of driving under the influence, reckless driving and a handful of other felonies and misdemeanors, police said. The crash happened in the 3800 block of West 87th Street aboug 10:45 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.
According to police, the vehicle Aguila was driving swerved and struck two people who were outside a vehicle on the Southwest Side. Aguila, of the 900 block of North Lawndale Avenue, is due in bond court Tuesday.
The medical examiner identified the two people hit as William Brunson, 39, of the 8200 block of South Harper Avenue in Chicago, and Victoria R. Means, 34, of the 14100 block of South School Street in south suburban Riverdale.
Brunson was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:55 p.m. and Means was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:21 p.m., according to the medical examiner.