09-20-2013, 07:22 PM
We're a jaded lot. Shit like this and nobody bats an eye. Of course, it is Chicago and no one has died from this incident yet.
I know, I know, they're mostly killing each other with handguns. I can't believe the damage this guy DIDN'T do with a fucking assault rifle. Imagine if the idiot had been capable of aiming even a little bit...
By Peter Nickeas and Jeremy Gorner
Tribune reporters
3:55 p.m. CDT, September 20, 2013
A gunman with a military-grade assault rifle opened fire on a pickup basketball game in the Back of the Yards neighborhood late Thursday, injuring 13 people and dragging the city back into the international spotlight for its violent crime problem.
At least 16 bullets were fired into Cornell Square Park around 10:15 p.m. on Thursday, wounding a 3-year-old boy and a dozen other people. All are expected to survive, many with wounds to their arms and legs.
Shell casings found around the blood-soaked basketball courts were 7.62 mm rounds, which are traditionally used in AK-47 assault rifles and rarely found in gang attacks on Chicago’s South Side. Though gun violence has long plagued the city’s impoverished neighborhoods, offenders almost never use military-style weapons.
“It's a miracle there has been no fatality,” Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said at a news conference this morning. “Illegal guns, illegal guns, illegal guns drive violence....A military-grade weapon on the streets of Chicago is simply unacceptable.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local...2520.story
I know, I know, they're mostly killing each other with handguns. I can't believe the damage this guy DIDN'T do with a fucking assault rifle. Imagine if the idiot had been capable of aiming even a little bit...
By Peter Nickeas and Jeremy Gorner
Tribune reporters
3:55 p.m. CDT, September 20, 2013
A gunman with a military-grade assault rifle opened fire on a pickup basketball game in the Back of the Yards neighborhood late Thursday, injuring 13 people and dragging the city back into the international spotlight for its violent crime problem.
At least 16 bullets were fired into Cornell Square Park around 10:15 p.m. on Thursday, wounding a 3-year-old boy and a dozen other people. All are expected to survive, many with wounds to their arms and legs.
Shell casings found around the blood-soaked basketball courts were 7.62 mm rounds, which are traditionally used in AK-47 assault rifles and rarely found in gang attacks on Chicago’s South Side. Though gun violence has long plagued the city’s impoverished neighborhoods, offenders almost never use military-style weapons.
“It's a miracle there has been no fatality,” Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said at a news conference this morning. “Illegal guns, illegal guns, illegal guns drive violence....A military-grade weapon on the streets of Chicago is simply unacceptable.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local...2520.story
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