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Re: Chicago warns cops - Thugs now use rifles cuz they pierce body armor.
More Chicago people dying from gunshot wounds...
More people dying from gunshot wounds as Chicago marks 400 homicides
28 July,`17 - Four years ago, Chicago didn't record 400 homicides until just before Thanksgiving Day. The city has already passed that mark this year. Chicago is on pace to have a deadlier year than 2016, when gun violence reached levels not seen in 20 years, according to data kept by the Tribune. While fewer people have been shot this year, more of them are dying from their wounds.
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An analysis of Tribune data shows the percentage of fatal shootings is running about 1.3 percent higher than last year. The percentage had been declining in recent years but started to rise last year. In 2013, about 15.5 percent of those shot in Chicago died. That percentage dropped to around 14 percent the next two years, but rose in 2016 to 15.2 percent, according to Tribune data. So far this year, 16.5 percent of the 2,150 people shot have died.
The mother of Kennatay Leavell kneels over his body at the scene of a fatal shooting in the 500 block of West Iowa Street on July 28, 2017, in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood. Leavell was shot multiple times in the face and pronounced dead at the scene, and a 34-year-old man was shot in the abdomen and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition.
Combined with other cases, such as strangulations and stabbings, the number of homicides reached 400 on Thursday, two days earlier than last year. With half the summer to go, Chicago is on course to top 700 homicides for a second consecutive year, a mark that had otherwise not been reached in two decades. It's not clear what might be driving the increase in homicides, which are often linked to gang conflicts and are concentrated on the West and South sides.
Willie Ross leans over the body of his son Kennatay Leavell at the scene of a fatal shooting in the 500 block of West Iowa Street on July 28, 2017, in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood. Leavell was shot multiple times in the face and pronounced dead at the scene, and a 34-year-old man was shot in the abdomen and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition.
Experts have cited everything from the proliferation of guns in the city to the opioid epidemic that could be intensifying disputes among heroin dealers. For the first six months of 2017, more than 90 percent of Chicago homicide2 victims were slain by gunfire, according to Police Department records. But in New York City, only about 49 percent of homicide victims were the victims of gun violence. According to a study released in January by the University of Chicago, 72 percent of Los Angeles' homicides in 2016 were with a gun.
Chicago police officers detain an emotional woman who crossed crime scene tape at the scene of a fatal shooting in the 500 block of West Iowa Street on July 28, 2017, in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood. Kennatay Leavell, 31, was shot multiple times in the face and pronounced dead at the scene, and a 34-year-old man was shot in the abdomen and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition.
Chicago had 50 more homicides than New York and Los Angeles combined through mid-June, even though it is far less populous than both. Earlier this year, Chicago police highlighted the link between drugs and violence earlier this year with maps displaying how the locations of shootings and drug overdoses overlapped. The maps showed a high concentration of shootings and overdoses happening on the West Side near the Eisenhower Expressway, dubbed the "Heroin Highway" because of the easy access it provides for drug-buying suburbanites.
More people dying from gunshot wounds as Chicago marks 400 homicides - Chicago Tribune
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Chicago Officer Shot While Responding to Call
July 24, 2017 - A Chicago police officer was shot in the leg about 1:30 p.m. while she was responding to a call of an armed robbery at a cellphone store near 43rd Street and Ashland Avenue.
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One person was shot dead and at least nine other people, including a Chicago police officer, were wounded in separate attacks within an 11-hour period Friday. The fatal shooting happened about 10:20 p.m. Friday in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side. Officers responded to a call of shots fired in the 8800 block of South Eggleston Avenue and found a man who had been shot in the buttocks and on the side of the body, police said. He was pronounced dead at 10:35 p.m.
On Saturday the medical examiner's office released information identifying him as Brendon Frazier, 23, of the same block on South Eggleston as where he was killed. The rain poured down as officers searched for evidence on a block lined with manicured lawns and brick homes. In the Back of the Yards neighborhood, a Chicago police officer was shot in the leg about 1:30 p.m. while she was responding to a call of an armed robbery at a cellphone store near 43rd Street and Ashland Avenue, according to officials.
Police work the scene where a 23-year-old man was shot in the head on the 7500 block of South Ridgeland Avenue in Chicago on Friday, July 21, 2017.
Witnesses pointed out the direction where suspects fled. When officers got out of the car, one or more of the suspects opened fire, prompting police to shoot back, Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said. The officer was in good condition at Stroger Hospital. Police arrested one person of interest in the case, and they were interviewing another person. In Logan Square, one man was shot and another man was stabbed during an attack about 8:30 p.m. in the 2600 block of West North Avenue, according to police.
The men were standing on the sidewalk when four men approached. Someone in the group opened fire, striking a 30-year-old man in the back and in the leg. A 19-year-old man was stabbed in the abdomen during the attack. Both men were taken to Stroger Hospital, where their conditions were stabilized.
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