36 shootings, 9 homicides reported in Chicago over weekend

[Jahness]

36 shootings, 9 homicides reported in Chicago over weekend



An outburst of gunfire rattled the city during the weekend, with at least nine people killed in 36 separate acts of violence. The shootings were reported from Friday until Monday morning, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said Monday. They included gang shootings, drive-by attacks, and even one case in which someone used an AK-47 to shoot up a plumbing supply store.

Then on Monday evening, a man was shot to death and three other people were wounded in a robbery attempt at a McDonald's, police said.

Authorities did not immediately say whether any of the weekend shootings were thought to be related.

Police Superintendent Jody Weis blamed an excess of guns and gangs.

"There are just too many weapons here," Weis said Sunday. "Too many guns, too many gangs."

During the same weekend last year, there were 19 shootings, including four homicides, and 21 shootings were reported during the same weekend in 2006, police statistics show.

New police data released Saturday showed Chicago's murder rate for March was down about 1 percent from March 2007.

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[BlackIsPower]

This is horrible for the city and Black folk as a whole all this does is create more funerals and more pigs in our hoods to harass us, neither one of these things helps the collective and I hope one day we wake up and realize this fact

[Moorbey]

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[Jahness]

Greetings Everyone!

It is very sad indeed that those are the kind of statistics we are seeing and hearing about.
No one is looking at those areas of Chicago and calling it a war zone. when yt is not doing
it to us we are doing it to ourselves. No one is willing to go and help out in those communities.
They simply allow the madness to continue.

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meetings.

Thank you all for taking the time to share your valuable comments.

Peace & Blessings