Chicago sees 12 shootings in 4 hours as gang warfare rages on
This July 2012 file photo shows Chicago police at the scene of a gang-related shooting. / CBS
(CBS News) - A dozen people were shot and wounded Tuesday night in Chicago, a bloody start to the July 4 holiday in a city which has seen a dramatic rise in gang-related violence this year.
CBS 2 in Chicago, in conjunction with the Sun-Times Media Wire, reports that three people remained hospitalized in critical condition, and a 15-year-old boy shot while playing basketball was in serious condition.
At least five separate shootings were reported between 5 p.m. and just before 9 p.m., according to CBS 2.
CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds reported earlier this week that, as of Monday, Chicago police had already reported 240 homicides in 2012.
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"She died in my arms. That's what makes it so bad," the little girl's mother, Ashake Banks, told Reynolds. "She took her last breath in my arms."
"Bullets don't have no names on them, and they're just shooting at anybody," Heaven's uncle Tavares Harrington told CBS News.
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The vitriol is splashed willy-nilly, all over the place, and they don't care if it is a truth or a lie!
Way to go num-nums!
by SOLARRAYS247 July 4, 2012 10:47 AM EDT
Stop your whining, and do something about it!
Stop allowing yourself to be so easily duped and used!
When someone like Rush Limbaugh can reach millions at a time, cherry picking examples and casting every issue as a "with us or against us" choice!
When a prominent Republican congressman declares that his first priority is getting rid of President Obama rather than addressing any one of a myriad of pressing social or economic issues, demonizing him in order to have more opportunities to avoid compromise!
Grow some balls, and join "We The People" with our demand for hack-free electronic voting machines with verifiable paper trails!
Help us in our fight to repeal Citizens United that claims that corporations are people! Help us to amend our constitution and protect our rights...because money must be taken out of politics and should not buy votes!
Then, and only then, will we be on our way to becoming, once again, the United States of America that we recall, and for whom our ancestors fought and died so that we can celebrate, as a free peoples, the 236th birthday of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on this day, July 4th.
Stop acting like a self-described patriot, and finally become one!
...by GTR5 July 4, 2012 11:52 AM EDT
And why do you think it's only Chicago?
How about you check some facts yourself?
1 - If they haven't done anything you can't arrest them!
2 - Their colors give them away? But normals use color too. How do you tell them apart? See number 1.
3 - Adding to their sentence for no cause, and being a member IS no cause, will not happen. See number 1.
Now for the toast, I lift my champagne. Well said, except for one mispelling...Sarah PAYlin.
Will you help "them"? Who is "them"?
I wish I could cuss on here. You'd deserve it!