GoldTeef
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A string of nearly two dozen shootings on the West Side has pushed the number of people shot during the Memorial Day weekend to at least 40, with two more days to go.
As of early Sunday morning, the toll stood at four dead and 36 wounded across the city, including a 15-year-girl shot to death as she rode in a Jeep on Lake Shore Drive near Fullerton Avenue, police said. Last year, 12 people were killed and 44 people were wounded over the holiday weekend.
Nineteen of those shot this weekend were wounded in or within a half-mile of the Harrison District on the West Side, police said. The district, one of the city's most violent, is average-sized but has more officers assigned to it than almost any other in the city. It is frequently the target of both prolonged drug operations and short-term extra patrols over holiday weekends.
Thirteen of the 19 were wounded in the Harrison District and an additional six nearby. The other shootings in the city were scattered from Albany Park on the North Side to Longwood Manor on the Far South Side.
Among those killed was Garvin Whitmore, 27, who was shot in the head while sitting in a car with a woman around 5:20 p.m. Saturday in the Fuller Park neighborhood on the South Side. Someone walked up to the car as it sat parked in the 200 block of West Root Street and fired, police said.
The woman in the car, Ashley Harrison, 26, picked up a gun and returned fire as the gunman ran away, police said. No was else was injured.
Harrison was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and reckless discharge of a weapon, both felonies, after surveillance video showed her firing the gun several times and then throwing it to the ground, police said.
40 people shot so far over Memorial Day weekend in Chicago, half of them on West Side
UPDATE: 69 people shot over memorial day weekend
Memorial Day weekend closes with 69 shot in Chicago, many of them on West Side
As of early Sunday morning, the toll stood at four dead and 36 wounded across the city, including a 15-year-girl shot to death as she rode in a Jeep on Lake Shore Drive near Fullerton Avenue, police said. Last year, 12 people were killed and 44 people were wounded over the holiday weekend.
Nineteen of those shot this weekend were wounded in or within a half-mile of the Harrison District on the West Side, police said. The district, one of the city's most violent, is average-sized but has more officers assigned to it than almost any other in the city. It is frequently the target of both prolonged drug operations and short-term extra patrols over holiday weekends.
Thirteen of the 19 were wounded in the Harrison District and an additional six nearby. The other shootings in the city were scattered from Albany Park on the North Side to Longwood Manor on the Far South Side.
Among those killed was Garvin Whitmore, 27, who was shot in the head while sitting in a car with a woman around 5:20 p.m. Saturday in the Fuller Park neighborhood on the South Side. Someone walked up to the car as it sat parked in the 200 block of West Root Street and fired, police said.
The woman in the car, Ashley Harrison, 26, picked up a gun and returned fire as the gunman ran away, police said. No was else was injured.
Harrison was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and reckless discharge of a weapon, both felonies, after surveillance video showed her firing the gun several times and then throwing it to the ground, police said.
40 people shot so far over Memorial Day weekend in Chicago, half of them on West Side
UPDATE: 69 people shot over memorial day weekend
Memorial Day weekend closes with 69 shot in Chicago, many of them on West Side
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Paradise50
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GoldTeef
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nah, just posting a news article. Im sure you can find the stats for other cities by typing '>insert city name here< memorial day killings'You have statistics for those? Or are you just regurgitating cherry picked statistics pushed by media with an agenda?
Birdie
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Worst aim of all time.
I'm about to head over to @beaniemac side of town and BarBQ with the homies, then go for a bike ride down the lake with the wife. Not worried about strays in the least. 
Tenchi Ryu
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I'm in the house by 7pm this weekend, ain't taking NO chances.
GoldTeef
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Stay safe man
