Another Bloody Weekend in Chicago!

This is becoming an all to frequent post is the number of dead and astronomical number of wounded. The number of dead is Eight, with over 50 wounded. Yet, Superintendant McCarthy has said the overall shootings are down across the city. Well tell that to the eight dead and 50 wounded! Police

• Joseph Briggs, 16 yoa, was the youngest to die in the weekend gun violence, just outside his Marquette Park home.  Joseph was shot on his front porch in the 6100 block of South Rockwell. Shots were fired from a gray vehicle about 8 p.m. police said that the shooting might be gang-related. Briggs was pronounced dead at 1:40 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the medical examiner’s office.
• About 10:20 a.m. Saturday, the siblings were sitting inside a parked sedan when a dark-colored sport-utility vehicle drove up and shots were fired, according to police. Derrick Wilkerson, 21, who lived at 118th and Indiana, was shot in the chest and later died at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. His 19-year-old brother suffered gunshot wounds to both arms and was expected to survive, authorities said.
• A robbery attempt in the South Side’s Park Manor neighborhood turned deadly in yet another shooting early Saturday morning. Kenneth J. Jones, 27, of the 3800 block of South Cottage Grove, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in the 6800 block of South Indiana, officials said.
• Rashuan Stephany, 22, of the 1300 block of West 49th, and Mario Jackson, 26, of the 5100 block of South Morgan, died a short time later at Stroger Hospital, according to the medical examiner’s office.


• In a shooting late Sunday, at least fivepeople were wounded — two fatally ­— during a fight on the South Side. The large fight broke out near the intersection of Halsted and 50th Place.

In addition to the eight slayings, another 50 — mostly men ranging in age from 17 to 50 — were injured in a spate of shootings on the South and West sides since Friday afternoon. Most happened Saturday into Sunday morning. 

Two separate shootings in the Southwest Side Lawndale neighborhood left 10 people wounded late Saturday and early Sunday: one in the 1300 block of South Avers and another in the 3300 block of West Douglas. The most seriously hurt was a 17-year-old shot in the abdomen at the Douglas Street address. The teen was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition.

The Chicago Redeye conducted a study of homicides compared to 2011. The report shows that the homicide rate is up 44% from the previous same five month period in 2011.  RedEye data found. Shooting fatalities were up nearly 47 percent while homicides by stabbing nearly doubled compared with last year.

A report in the Huffington Post shows that the homicide rate in Chicago is higher than in New York and their population is twice that of the Chicago.


When will this come under control, why can't Chicago get a handle on the situation? What will it take? More to come on that in a future post!