8 shot in single West Side attack among 67 shot over long weekend

[CG6468]

8 shot in single West Side attack among 67 shot over long weekend
 
(Posted on: July 7, 2013)

Staff report
11:18 a.m. CDT, July 7, 2013

Eight people were shot -- one fatally -- in a drive-by shooting in which two men fired on a group of people at a home in the Lawndale neighborhood Saturday evening, authorities said.

At least one of the shooters used a rifle and casings were recovered at the scene, police said.

At least 67 people have been shot across the city since Wednesday afternoon during this long holiday weekend, 11 fatally.

In Saturday evening's shooting, four people in serious-to-critical condition and one person in fair-to-serious condition were taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, while one person in serious-to-critical and one person in fair-to-serious condition were taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital, according to the Chicago Fire Department's media office.

One victim, a 49-year-old man, was pronounced dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. He was identified as Terry Patterson; his home address was not available. He had been taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound the groin, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Joshua Purkiss said.

At Stroger were: a woman, 72, with a wound to an ankle; a woman, 41, with a wound to her right thigh; a man, 43, with gunshot wounds to the leg and back; a man, 45, shot in the penis and right thigh; and a man, 48, shot in the leg and buttocks. At Mount Sinai were: a man, 31, shot in the wrist, and a woman, 20, shot in the right leg. Police described all the victims as having had their conditions stabilized.

Situation normal - 67 shot in one weekend -  a standard weekend in Chicago 

[Dori]

If you were the mayor of Chicago, what would you do?

[seahorse513]

If you were the mayor of Chicago, what would you do?

request to his superior to lift the ban. His best argument would, be if people were allowed to open carry, or at least concel, real criminals would think twice, before committing a crime...

[CG6468]

If you were the mayor of Chicago, what would you do?

Arm all of 'em, put 'em in a chain-link fenced area, and let natural selection take over. No fire or police actions allowed. When that group's done, put in the 2nd group, etal.....

Seriously mean it, too. They are unrepentant, know no values of social interactions, and have no value to society.

[Freeper]

Lawndale neighborhood should be decreed a gun free zone, that should save a whole ton of lives.

[CG6468]

Lawndale neighborhood should be decreed a gun free zone, that should save a whole ton of lives.

Yeah, right. Along with Englewood, in which I was born at the now gone Englewood Hospital.

And it keeps spreading every week.