Murder outside Chicago elem school, CPS sends note home calling it 'incident'

[proud2BlibKansan]

SOUTH SHORE — Ann Taylor's 7-year-old son was the first to tell her that a man had been fatally shot outside of his elementary school Monday morning.

The shooting took place at about 8:30 a.m. directly outside of James Madison Elementary school, causing a 20-minute lockdown on the campus.

"I'm shocked that I didn't receive a call [from Chicago Public Schools], then I would have had the option of comforting him in person — a mother knows, you know?" Taylor said as she picked her first-grade son up from school, more than six hours after the shooting.

The 28-year-old was shot in the chest on the 7400 block of South Dorchester Avenue, said officer John Mirabelli, a police spokesman.

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The memo mentions an "incident" that "occurred on the grounds of Madison Elementary School," but is vague on details and doesn't mention a shooting at all.


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[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. The squad-car cops in Chicago have been spread too thin because the money because the

money siphoned off and used for other purposes.

Although there are a great number of unemployed people in jail and in the prison system, including people that many Americans might believe should not be because they have been convicted of marijuana-related offenses, there is also an absence of an adequate amount of money to keep all violent criminals in prison.

Neighborhoods have been stripped of jobs which have been sent to foreign countries. That also lowers the amount of taxes that can be collected, and raises a sense of dispair of some of those who live in such neighborhoods including gang members and other criminals.

The politicians and those connected to them could help by taking a little less for themselves. But that's not going to happen. Even at the present time, there are those involved with closing public schools and harvesting public assets by privatizing various schools. They are not doing that for free.

A little less graft and corruption would help.