From the Chicago Tribune:
A 22-year-old man was found shot in the face and unresponsive this morning on Chicago’s South Side.
Jovan Kelly, of the 8600 block of South Paxton Avenue, was pronounced dead this morning, according to a spokeswoman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Police are investigating, according to the Trib.
Any fool can shoot [...]
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Bystanders flagged down a CTA bus for help after a man and a woman were critically shot on the West Side Saturday night.
Both victims, in their mid-20s, were taken from Cermak Road and Rockwell Street to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition at about 7:35 p.m. Saturday night, Fire Media Affairs spokesman [...]
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Authorities say eight teenage boys were shot while leaving a Gary, Ind., skating rink where they were attending a concert.
Police Cpl. Gabrielle King says "chaos broke loose" when a fight erupted Friday night event at World of Skates. Police say the shooting started in the parking lot.
The victims were taken to [...]
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Declaring “I don’t quit,”‘ an embattled President Barack Obama vowed in his first State of the Union address Wednesday night to make job growth his topmost priority and urged a divided Congress to boost the still-ailing economy with fresh stimulus spending. Defiant despite stinging setbacks, he said he would not abandon ambitious [...]
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
A 15-year-old student was shot in the back Tuesday afternoon just two blocks from a Southwest Side high school — one of 38 schools in the city receiving federal funding as part of a new anti-violence campaign.
The shooting happened at 63rd Street and Springfield Avenue at 1:05 p.m., police News Affairs [...]
Is birther Orly Taitz calling for a call to arms against President Obama?
Taitz has long ago pulled the fabricated Barack Obama birth certificate she once posted on her website. Her anger knows no bounds, however.
From her blog:
What is the real intention of this Kenyan, Indonesian communist usurper? Is it to provide security for [...]
When will it stop?
The sad news from the Chicago Sun-Times:
Eleven-year-old Aston Wise was a passenger in a sport-utility vehicle parked on a South Shore street Friday night when a masked gunman opened fire with a shotgun, killing Aston and critically wounding his father.
Aston, of the 6800 block of South East End Avenue, was shot in [...]
From The Seattle Times:
Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for questioning in the killing this morning of four Lakewood police officers, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic behavior and concerns about his mental health.
Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, commuting his [...]
As I wrote last March, 14-year-old Gregory Robinson sounds like someone you would have admired.
Hearing gunshots, Robinson tried to protect a 10-month-old and a 4-year-old, and was shot dead. His murder remains unsolved, along with many others.
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
The murder of 14-year-old Gregory Robinson, a Simeon Career Academy student who died [...]
The tragic news from the Chicago Tribune:
Police have recovered a note left behind by Thomas Mangiantini, who they say killed his two young sons, his wife and himself in their Addison home.
The note, one page long and handwritten, was discovered late Wednesday night, hours after the bodies of Mangiantini, his wife Elizabeth [...]
