Although rarely discussed here, Chicago has a huge problem
Latest example.
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2 dead, more than a dozen others injured in separate city shootings
By Rosemary Regina Sobol, Deanese Williams-Harris, Carlos Sadovi, Alexandra Chachkevitch,
Chicago Tribune
December 13, 2014, 6:35 AM
Two men were killed and more than a dozen others, including a 15-year-old boy, were wounded since Friday in separate shootings on the city's South and West sides, police said..
Around 7:03 p.m. Friday, a 28-year-old man was fatally shot while he sat in a vehicle on the 1300 block of North Springfield Avenue in the North Lawndale neighborhood, said Police News Affairs Officer Thomas Sweeney.
The man was in the vehicle with a female child when someone came up to the vehicle and began shooting, Sweeney said. He was shot in the head.
According to WGN TV, the man had a 3-year-old girl, who was possibly his daughter, on his lap at the time. The girl was not injured, Sweeney said.
The man was a documented gang member, police said.
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