Four Charged in Mass Chicago Shooting

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/four-charged-mass-chicago-shooting-154247524--abc-news-topstories.html
By Matthew Jaffe | ABC News Blogs – 6 hours ago..

CHICAGO - Four people have been charged in the gang-related Chicago shooting involving an assault-style rifle that injured 13 people in a city park, including a 3-year old boy, police announced today.

"As of right now we have four offenders charged in this shooting, including the man who fired that military grade weapon and the man who supplied that military grade weapon," police superintendent Garry McCarthy told a press conference.

Tabari Young, 22, Bryon Champ, 21, Brad Jett, 22, and Kewane Gatewood, 20, were all charged with three counts of attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm, McCarthy said.

Young, police said, was the main shooter in last Thursday's incident in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the city's South Side. Champ, who police said also fired a gun, is a documented gang member who was convicted of a felony - unlawful use of a weapon by a felon - last year, but was only sentenced to boot camp, according to police. Gatewood, authorities said, supplied the military grade weapon and Jett participated as a lookout, McCarthy said.



McCarthy said that Champ was the "main player" in the incident, citing that Champ suffered a graze wound to his leg in a shooting earlier in the day that led to the retaliatory shooting at the basketball court in the Back of the Yards.

"If Bryon Champ is not on the street - as he shouldn't have been - this incident likely does not occur," McCarthy said.

"If Champ is not on the street, there's no retaliation because there's no incident," he added. "This individual was the victim of gun violence and then became the offender of it."

Among the wounded was 3-year old Deonta Howard, who suffered a gunshot wound to his ear. Howard has undergone plastic surgery and is expected to recover.

Thursday's incident was only the latest in a string of tragic shootings in the city. Earlier this year 15-year old Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed only days after performing at President Obama's inauguration.

McCarthy today reiterated his calls for stricter gun laws to help crack down on the city's gun violence problems.

"Illegal guns and weapons designed for war do not belong on the streets of Chicago," he said Finally they get around to using Chicago news /stats. They've ignored it for all the first term of the magnificent dear leader. Now that he is on a gun crusade like I said he would be in second term suddenly Chicago gang warfare comes in handy. --Tyr

[Gaffer]

The Brown Shirts are just getting started. The question is will it be a Mussolini style put down or a night of the long knives.

[hjmick]

Wait...

I was led to believe that a mass shooting involved four or more victims...

If thirteen were injured and there were four shooters...

13÷4=3.25...

That is less than 4 victims per scumbag...

Furthermore, I am also led to believe that those who gather statistics for instances such as this do not include gang related shootings nor do they consider domestic violence cases in mass shooting statistics...


In the 30 years through March, 78 public mass shootings occurred in the U.S. -- incidents in which four or more people were killed at random by a gunman killing indiscriminately, according to a report issued that month by the Congressional Research Service. These crimes don’t include gang-related killings or domestic disputes where a person slays relatives or other people linked to the assailant.

The mass slaughters listed in the report caused the deaths of 547 people. Over the same three decades through 2012, that’s less than a tenth of 1 percent of the 559,347 people the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates were murdered in America.

“It is a very, very small percentage,” said James Alan Fox, who teaches criminology at Boston’s Northeastern University and co-authored a book about mass shootings called “Extreme Killing,” published in 2011...

In his research, Fox uses a broader definition of mass killing than the research service report -- he looks at any homicide resulting in four or more deaths, regardless of motive, which includes killings in domestic disputes and robberies gone bad. He reports no increase in mass killings in recent years.

“This is not an epidemic,” he said.

In a database of mass killings since 2006 compiled by USA Today, roughly half of all instances where more than four died were motivated by a family dispute of some kind, while 30 percent start as robberies or burglaries. Just 20 percent were the type of public, random killings that occurred in Washington, the newspaper said.


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-17/mass-shootings-fuel-fear-account-for-fraction-of-murders.html

[aboutime]

Wait...

I was led to believe that a mass shooting involved four or more victims...

If thirteen were injured and there were four shooters...

13÷4=3.25...

That is less than 4 victims per scumbag...

Furthermore, I am also led to believe that those who gather statistics for instances such as this do not include gang related shootings nor do they consider domestic violence cases in mass shooting statistics...




http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-17/mass-shootings-fuel-fear-account-for-fraction-of-murders.html




hjmick. Guess it just depends on who you ask in Chicago, as to what the real numbers might be. We should all EMAIL Mayor Rahm, and ask him if he uses Chicago numbers, or Obama numbers to do his calculations. Much like the Denial of Debt created by raising the DEBT CEILING in Washington, and Obama's IMAGINATION.