[jjgold]

At least eight people have been killed and 25 others wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday at midnight, police said.

Last year over the entire Memorial Day weekend, seven people were killed and 45 others were hurt.

A 15-year-old boy is among the wounded after being shot in his back and hips. Police said he was shot just after 11 p.m. Sunday night in the 1800-block of West Cullerton Street.

The boy was walking towards a car when a dark minivan pulled up and someone inside shouted a gang-related slogan before firing shots. No one is in custody.

Investigators said China Marie Lyons- Upshaw, was in her bedroom in the 800-block of East 49th Street when she was shot in the chest. She and another man were playing with a gun when it hit the ground and went off.

Sunday, that man, turned himself in to police, accompanied by his mother and crisis responder Andrew Holmes.

"He was very emotional, crying on and off. He's very heartbroken about it, emotional, and he just didn't want to run away from it," Holmes said.

Meanwhile, a young mother was shot and killed over the weekend on her doorstep while she was celebrating her 2-year-old's birthday. Bobbieana Lyons, 20, was hit by stray bullets near 76th and Halsted streets.

And at around 1 a.m. Monday on the West Side, two men got into a fight inside a car near Flournoy Street and Laramie Avenue. They got out, then one man pulled out a gun shooting a 31-year-old man twice in the chest and once in the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police are trying to curb gun violence this holiday weekend with 1,300 extra officers on patrol and help from state and federal partners. But the statistics so far are hard painting a very violent picture.

[Otters27]

Crazy

[capitalist pig]

Bet you don’t see that on any of the major news outlets.

later

[milwaukee mike]

chicago has some of the strictest gun laws anywhere, and the most gun violence

just like milwaukee, there are a group of zip codes that the powers that be allow to be total hellholes

[Booya711]

They aren’t white and it’s not schools so nobody gives a fukk...that’s reality today

[BigOrange]

That's probably the lowest number in 10 years for a holiday weekend in Chiraq!

[unde0087]

chicago has some of the strictest gun laws anywhere, and the most gun violence

just like milwaukee, there are a group of zip codes that the powers that be allow to be total hellholes

Exactly, but we need bans and more harsh laws and it will get rid of the violence the Dems say.

[spro23]

We need segregation. How can white liberals ignore the severe, continued dysfunction. Do the really think giving more money to teachers is going to change their behavior?

[spro23]

Just one more social program! come on whitey pay up its your fault they act this way

[Bostongambler]

Slow weekend

[TheLock]

I blame Chicago police

[Kermit]

Thanks Trump.

[Bostongambler]

I blame deep dish pizza

[DiggityDaggityDo]

Isn’t this a typical weekend in Chicago?

[kyhawk]

If the POlice were involved in just two of these the coloreds would me marching.

[jjgold]

Cops doing a lousy job there

hiding in their cars and turning their heads

[survive]

We need segregation. How can white liberals ignore the severe, continued dysfunction. Do the really think giving more money to teachers is going to change their behavior?

Well Chicago pretty much is segregated already

[SBR Tony]

Cops doing a lousy job there

hiding in their cars and turning their heads

the sad part is they are killing their own, and no age restrictions apply

[Jayvegas420]

Stupidest fukkin country on the planet.

[packerd_00]

So it isn't just young white guys shooting people, surprising eh!

[jayc88]

USA = biggest shithole in the world

[jjgold]

When people think of Chicago this stuff doesn’t happen in any nice area or even downtown these are in real pit holes

I do feel bad for the good people in that ghetto that can’t get out

Sure there’s plenty

[tony_come]

Obama will address these issues soon

[El Terrible]

Just one more social program! come on whitey pay up its your fault they act this way

Well they are fighting over street corners to sell drugs on- Street corners close to the expessways so white professionals can easily get drugs on their way to work..

[El Terrible]

USA = biggest shithole in the world

Ha ha ha ha

The whole country? Its pretty big you know?

[DiggityDaggityDo]

Jay loves Vegas though.

[danwinkler]

typical weekend. its just on news because its memorial day weekend.

[VeggieDog]

Jesse and Al don't show up for blacks killed by blacks. Nobody to shakedown.

[wikkidinsane]

Your thinking is extremely biased sprouts. Why are you grown ass men making it a competition to see if more blacks or whites are killing the most people? Chicago isn't a one step solution. Yes education have some to do with it but They have to get shit under control there before that can even take place. When a school shooting or some domestic terrorist goes off,. I don't celebrate that shit, it's bad. You are right about the news not covering it but I don't believe it's because they are trying to push black violence under the rug, but it's because they won't get as much viewers(white viwers). You are a majority in this country and will tune in more when it's your own lil John and Jane getting killed. That's what news organizations care about. It's the Mone stupid!

[themike78]

Hopefully they all kill eachother. Less trash on the streets.

[JMobile]

Chicago is a dump along with Detroit and Atlanta.

[Art Vandelay]

typical weekend. its just on news because its memorial day weekend.

It's in the 90's up here - Weather brings more people outside so the numbers jump a bit. Nothing to see here...

[Mac4Lyfe]

chicago has some of the strictest gun laws anywhere, and the most gun violence

just like milwaukee, there are a group of zip codes that the powers that be allow to be total hellholes

Horse fukkking shit. They are getting the guns from neighboring states.

The problem is that there's TOO MANY DAMN GUNS. No gun = No shot by a gun

The powers to be drop ship guns into these neighborhoods on purpose, just like they set up liquor stores. What the fukk do you expect to happen? These are ALL gang related turf wars. It was the same with Italians and Irish decades ago. Stop trying to deflect the real issue. The USA has a gun fukkking problem. You won't admit it because you don't give a fukk.

Why did the op post 8 BLACK people killed this weekend AND NOT POST the 70 MILITARY VETS that killed themselves this weekend? You dumb fukks keep trying to make it a racial, man, boy, school, gang, mental health, etc., issue when the real problem is TOO MANY DAMN GUNS.

[JIBBBY]

Low income black hoods are full of crime.. Gang violence is the norm, nothing new about that.. Chicago leads the charge in that department these days..

Bad parts of Chicago got really bad under Obama, Obama just passed it all off to Trump now.. Being a sanctuary city isn't helping Chicago either. "Sanctuary City" really just means - "more violent crimes and drugs".. If the politicians and Congress would back Trump Chicago would clean up.. Liberal leadership killing Chicago and California.. Making it more dangerous.

Chicago is crime pit always was.. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/d...htmlstory.html

[El Terrible]

Chicago is a dump along with Detroit and Atlanta.

You'd have to have grown up there to like it.. in the winter

Too much traffic for me now- When I get in my car, I like to move