This gun violence occurs REGULARLY in strict gun-control Chicago. Yet there are no protests and outrage nor moments of silence for those killed every weekend. And I’m really surprised that the liberals aren’t blaming the NRA.
MyFoxChicago: Seven people were killed and at least 35 others — including a 5-year-old girl — were wounded in shootings across Chicago between Friday night and Monday morning.
The weekend’s latest homicide happened Sunday morning in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
About 8:35 a.m., an officer on patrol found 32-year-old Dwayne T. Triplett slumped over at the wheel of a vehicle near his home in the 1100 block of West 72nd Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He suffered gunshot wounds to the head and chest, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:53 a.m., authorities said.
Earlier Sunday, two men, ages 34 and 42, were slain on a Brainerd neighborhood porch on the South Side. Officers responding at 1:13 a.m. to a call of shots fired in the 9000 block of South Marshfield found them dead, one shot in the head and the other in the neck, police said.
Authorities have not released their names. Family members identified the older man as Antwon Brooks, a father of two.
Late Saturday in Back of the Yards, a 17-year-old boy was killed and a 19-year-old man was wounded in more South Side gunfire.
They were standing in the street about 10:20 p.m. in the 5200 block of South Sangamon when a silver Audi pulled up and someone inside fired shots, police said. The 17-year-old, identified as Christopher Fields, was shot in the back and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 11:17 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the 6200 block of South Sangamon.
The older teen was taken to the same hospital with an arm wound. His condition stabilized, police said.
About 1:30 a.m. Saturday, an 18-year-old south suburban man was fatally shot in the West Chatham neighborhood on the South Side. Travell Montgomery was on a porch in the 8800 block of South Princeton when three gunmen walked up and opened fire, shooting him in the head, authorities said.
Montgomery was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 7:55 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the 16800 block of Western Avenue in Hazel Crest.
At least 29 other people were injured in shootings across Chicago between 8 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Monday.
Read about all the shootings here.
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