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2 teens killed, 24 others wounded across [I'll give you 3 guesses where]
Two teenagers were killed and 24 others were wounded during a city night filled with gun violence.
The youngest victim, Richard Modell, 17, died from his wounds after being shot along with a friend as the two went to meet a girl in the West Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side Saturday night.
Richard Modell, 17, may have been targeted due to a feud between two rival gangs, one of which police say he belonged to. He and the 18-year-old were on their way to meet a girl when someone walked up and opened fire in the 6300 block of South Rhodes Avenue just before 9:30 p.m., according to police.
Modell died after being taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in “extremely critical” condition with a gunshot wound to the chest. Modell lived about three blocks south of where he was killed, a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
The other teen, 18, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds; his condition was not available. Responding paramedics found both of them in the street.
Police said they don’t have any reason to think the older of the two affiliates with a gang and believe he may have been shot because he was with Modell.
About 4:30 a.m. Sunday, an 18-year-old man was fatally shot in the chest on the 5300 block of South Calumet Avenue, officials said. The shooting occurred in the Washington Park neighborhood. The man was pronounced dead at 5 a.m. at Stroger hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. No further information was immediately available.
Those two teenagers were the fourth and fifth persons killed since Friday night. The others were a 73-year-old man sitting on a stoop with a friend, a 34-year-old man getting ready to celebrate his brother’s birthday, and a 20-year-old woman in a “domestic” incident.
grayscape
October 15th, 2012
Three guesses….
Kinshasa
Baghdad
Shitcago
reddecaesari
October 15th, 2012
counting on those six government employees to solve the murders.
BobK
October 15th, 2012
What they need there are more gun laws so the bad guys can’t get guns. Oh wait, they have strict gun laws. I wonder why they aren’t working? sarc
The Doktor
October 15th, 2012
And people wonder why I am loathe to go into certain parts of Chicago. I was BORN there and I wouldn’t live there.
Wyatt, Insensitive Progressive Jerk
October 15th, 2012
I was so impressed with Biden’s performance in the vice-president debate that I would suggest implementing one of the administration’s key “successes” – training Afghan forces to patrol Chicago in order to prevent the Chicago authorities from getting caught in the cross-fire. These Afghani soldiers also apparently have the training, drive and moxie to quell Chicago street violence.
Just trying to think outside of the box.
even steven
October 15th, 2012
Oh… Chicago. I was going to guess Funkhouser, Illinois.
nobarack08
October 15th, 2012
Obamaville
Pickled Liver
October 15th, 2012
More gun laws that’s what they need ! That should work – kinda like prohibition and the war on drugs -…. no wait!
EinTX
October 15th, 2012
Chitcago, the only city in the world that can make Detroit look defensible.
Maudie N Mandeville
October 15th, 2012
New Orleans?
Washington D.C.?
Detroit? Gottsta be Detroit.
OK, Compton?
Marlin Perkins
October 15th, 2012
Today on Wild Kingdom, we venture deep into the Chicago Jungle in search of the not-so-elusive black savage. Rarely found outside of his Democrat imposed ghetto enviroment, where Obama phones and Fool Stamps are plentiful, these savages are extremely dangerous and should only be approached by a skilled professional or a White Liberal currently experiencing White Guilt and displaying an Obama insignia.
Here we see Jim attempting to interact with… OH SHIT! They just killed Jim!
norman einstein
October 15th, 2012
Twinkletoes must be so proud.
No wonder the Won’s are moving to Hawaii. Chitcago is a chithole.
The Dolfer
October 15th, 2012
@Marlin Perkins “They just killed Jim!” TREMENDOUS!!!! Made me laugh on a crappy Monday afternoon!
conservative cowgirl
October 15th, 2012
I thought it would be Croakland, CA. Well, surprise, surprise.
Noodengr
October 15th, 2012
Killing them off just pads the voting list of dead folks that can be used next month. I think I have discovered Rahm’s motives.
Marlin Perkins(yourfavoriteunkle)
October 15th, 2012
@ The Dolfer… Happy to oblige you.
Though I have never been to the jungles of Chicago, I have witnessed first-hand the savages of the Philly Hinterlands during my school years at VFMA. I can imagine that they are no different.
Keep smilin’… Monday is almost over.
scr_north
October 15th, 2012
Gee with Chicago becoming more dangerous than a tour in Afghanistan I’m surprised Hizzonner Rahm had time to do a cameo on Chicago Fire, NBC’s latest sacrifice to prime time programming.
DICK daily
October 15th, 2012
how bout the MoFoDem legislators TAX the MoFoKILLLLAAAAAHHHS cause they be doing the killin…
maybe they could tax their own for a REAL change
locknload
October 15th, 2012
Good thing Ms PRECKwinkle wants to institute a new “violence tax” in Cook county that will tax guns and ammunition sold in cook county – “which will help get guns off the streets” Yea, a new tax will sure curtain that gang banger activity. F-ing morons in politics in IL I swear.
tucsondon
October 15th, 2012
Thinning of the herd; Chicago style!
Unruly Refugee
October 15th, 2012
The 0bama Boyz
Unruly Refugee
October 15th, 2012
Arkansas has a much higher murder rate than California simply because of the “ethnic” make up of Pine Bluff and Little Rock. (avoid Pine Bluff at all costs)
Check your city here:
http://losangeles.areaconnect.com/crime/compare.htm?c1=Los%20Angeles&s1=CA&c2=Little%20Rock&s2=AR
Unruly Refugee
October 15th, 2012
Damn, higher than Shitcago too, wtf?
Nutjob
October 15th, 2012
This is outrageous, can we start a fundraiser to send these inbreds more bullets? Or at the very least shooting lessons so they don’t have so many woundings that taxpayers have to pay for?
Big Jacket
October 15th, 2012
I was going to say Chicago when I read the headline, but the numbers dead or wounded seemed awfully low for chicago. Now if 2 died and 24 were wounded IN A HOUR IN CHICAGO, now that I would have nailed it.