From top left, clockwise: Mourners react to a shooting at 4747 S. King in Chicago on Sept. 3, 2015; authorities at the scene of a fatal shooting in South Shore; police and residents at the scene of a shooting of five people in Back of the Yards; a car crash at the scene of an Englewood shootout.View Full Caption
DNAinfo
CHICAGO — September 2015 will end as Chicago's worst
so far this decade when it comes to gun violence.
Through midday Tuesday, at least 250 shootings resulted
in 55 people getting killed and 288 other people getting shot,
according to data compiled by DNAinfo.
Compared with September last year, shootings are up 38
percent, gun deaths are up 66 percent and the overall number
of people wounded is up 47 percent.
But the two biggest incidents occurred this week,
including one in which a dispute over gang territory likely
led to the shooting of five people, including a baby, and
led to the deaths of the baby's grandmother and pregnant mother.
"You have an innocent family coming home from a family
outing, and somebody opens fire on two women, a child and two
adults," said Deputy Chief Eugene Roy from the scene Monday
night. "Coming home from a family outing, that's important.
This family was attacked by unknown individuals."
Hours later in Fuller Park, five people were shot, three fatally,
in a separate incident.
Anthony Guglielmi said the Deering police district had
"a ton" of officers on the street through the weekend, which
serves the area in which both of those incidents occurred.
"You can't ask any more of these cops," Guglielmi said.
"They have their hearts and souls in this."
On Tuesday, Police Supt. Garry McCarthy held a news
conference where he gave impassioned comments about Illinois' gun laws,
which he has repeated throughout his tenure as Chicago's top cop.
"Because the sanctions from the gangs for losing the gun
is greater than the sanction for being caught by the police and
getting put through the criminal justice system," McCarthy said,
"criminals are not held accountable."
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