Chicago's Violent Weekend bring Federal Help

Posted: Apr 22, 2014 7:12 AM CDT Updated: Apr 22, 2014 12:33 PM CDT

By Anita Padilla, FOX 32 News Reporter - bio | email

The federal government is offering help to the city of Chicago in the fight to end violence in the streets. The special section of the U.S. Attorney's Office will target drugs and guns. 

The news was announced after an especially violent Easter weekend in the city.  Police officials say at least 44 people were shot over the weekend in Chicago. Eight of those victims died.

Monday night, two teen boys were wounded — one critically — in a shooting in the South Shore neighborhood. The two boys, ages 14 and 16, were standing on the sidewalk in the 1600 block of East 69th Street about 9:35 p.m. when they heard shots ring out and felt pain, police said.

Read more: http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/25306214/feds-intervene-after-violent-weekend-in-chicago#ixzz2zdt3SKdq

Chicago Violence Leaves Four Dead, 37 Wounded

By Josh McGhee on April 14, 2014 7:08am 

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Violence erupted Friday afternoon with the slaying of a teenage girl and steadily continued through the weekend.

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CHICAGO — A 24-year-old man shot in West Pullman Sunday night was at least the 37th person shot in a violent three-day stretch in Chicago.

Four people were killed on the first weekend of the year to feature a stretch of warm weather, and the violence began as the school day ended on the warm Friday afternoon when a teenage girl, Gakira Barnes, was fatally shot in Woodlawn.

The most recent shooting occurred around 10:15 p.m. Sunday evening. A 24-year-old man was walking in the 12200 block of South Emerald Avenue when he heard shots and felt pain, said Officer Hector Alfaro, a police spokesman.

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Knockout game racist? Nah...

WND EXCLUSIVE

'WHITE GIRL' AUTHOR GIVES HANNITY 'KNOCKOUT' SCOOP

Colin Flaherty reveals 'relentless mountain of evidence' of growing black-mob violence

The journalist who, until recently, has been the only newsman to focus on the rapidly growing phenomenon of racial violence in America – including the “Knockout Game” where an attacker bashes, as hard as possible, an innocent passer-by on the head, sometimes resulting in death – today shared with talk radio host Sean Hannity the “relentless mountain of evidence” of the troubling phenomenon.

WND has been exclusively featuring the work of reporter-author Colin Flaherty for several years, and many of his reports have been assembled in “‘White Girl Bleed A Lot’: The Return of Racial Violence to American and How the Media Ignore It.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/white-girl-author-gives-hannity-knockout-scoop/#yPxoBad7RqTjAvUa.99

WEEK IN REVIEW: At least six killed in citywide shootings

At least six people were murdered throughout the city last week, but none since Thursday night.

The most recent murder happened Thursday night in the Little Village neighborhood when 17-year-old Javier Gonzalez was shot in the head and arm in the 3000 block of South Karlov Avenue about 7:50 p.m., authorities said. Gonzalez, of the 3100 block of South Komensky Avenue, died Friday afternoon at Mount Sinai Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

http://homicides.suntimes.com/2013/11/18/week-in-review-at-least-six-killed-in-citywide-shootings/