Listening to police scanner yesterday afternoon between 4PM to about 10PM - 8th and 7th Districts were indeed busy. Counted about 12 shootings and at least 10 people injured - at least 3 dead at last count. The news media only gives you one side of the story check out http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/ for another side.
A small example:
Cops OK, Bystander Hurt?
Our money would be on the goof with the AK-47:
A 35-year-old man was hospitalized Friday evening after being shot just blocks from a police-involved shooting on the South Side. A man was shot in the 11300 block of South Emerald Avenue before 7 p.m., according to police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli. As responding officers investigated the shooting, shots were fired at the police in the 11000 block of South Union Avenue, Mirabelli said. No officers were injured. Officers recovered an AK-47 assault rifle from the Union Avenue address, Mirabelli said. A 35-year-old man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in "trauma" condition from the Emerald Avenue address, Fire Media Affairs spokesman Joe Roccasalva said. It was not clear whether the man was shot by police or another individual.
Shot just blocks away? Our ammo can barely make it to the end of the block, even with a decent tailwind. And when it gets there, it's isn't about to do any damage.
Thank god no coppers got killed.
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Anonymous said...
Massive violence in Area 2 last night... about 10 different people shot and 3 homicides maybe 4, one is clinging on with a faint heartbeat.
They ran out of Detectives and had to call Area 1 for help!
That is just 9 hours on a wet friday night.
Look out summer,,, it is going to be a bad one!
4/19/2008 06:23:00 AM
Anonymous said...
I was out there this evening and was on the scene when this guy was placed in custody. The 35 year old was shot at 714 west on 115th street. 022nd district tact guys spotted a man who fit the description of the offender from the shooting on 115th street. The guy bailed out of his vehicle and opened fire from the ak47 spraying the front windshield of the vehicle and officers returned fire without hitting him. The guy attempted to ditch the weapon but was caught after a brief footchase. Later on in the evening, the man who was originally shot on 115th street was pronounced dead at Christ. Those officers were truly blessed because from the looks of that windshield.... its hard to imagine them not being hit.
4/19/2008 02:10:00 AM
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