Chicago war zone: 9 dead, 50 injured

Is the violence in Chicago simply black-on-black gang warfare?

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ine people have been shot dead and 51 others injured in Chicago in less than 48 hours with authorities describing the streets as a 'war zone'.

The spate of deadly shootings took place across multiple Chicago neighborhoods mostly on the West and South sides, from 5pm on Friday to 10am on Sunday.

Paramedics went as far as saying the city was like a 'war zone', while police described it as being one of the most violent weekends of late.

In just a two-hour stretch in the early hours on Sunday, 25 people were shot in five different mass shootings.

Thirty-four of the shootings, including five of the deaths, occurred in just 24 hours from 10am on Saturday to 10am on Sunday.

One single shooting in Gresham, a neighborhood in the city's south side, injured eight people ranging in age from 14 to 35.

The group had been standing in a courtyard just after 12.30am on Sunday when several people opened fire on them.

The youngest person killed was a 17-year-old girl who was shot in the face at Lawndale at about 2.30am on Sunday while she was standing on a sidewalk with a group of people.

Five others were injured in that shooting, including an 11-year-old boy who sustained wounds to his leg.

The high number of shootings made it difficult for both police and medical staff to keep track. At one point, police said Stroger Hospital had been placed on trauma lockdown, ABC7 reports.

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This board features a catalog view, you dumb fucker. Use it.

Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Fred Waller said during a Sunday press conference that most of the shootings were being traced back to gangs.

'We know that some of these incidents were targeted and are related to gang conflicts in those areas,' Waller said.

He went on to express frustration that gang members do not fear the consequences and that they were taking advantage of large summer crowds to seek revenge.

'They take advantage of that opportunity and they shoot into a crowd, no matter who they hit,' Waller said.

'I promise this city, we won't be defeated. We won't be overrun by that small element that's committing these reckless acts.'

Waller said the spike in crime was not a result of police resources being redirected to the Lollapalooza music festival held in the city at the weekend.

He said police had taken over 5,500 guns off the streets this year as part of a new initiative to stem the flow of illegal firearms in the city to curb gun violence.

President Trump said last year he was sending in federal help to fight the gun violence in the city because it had reached 'epidemic proportions'.

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Its all down to the inherent racism of white america...somehow

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B-buh only white men are shooters :DDDDDDDDDDDD

Must be Fake News. Chicago has strict gun laws and is full of peaceful democrats.

It's obviously the fault of guns. If those young restless men didn't have guns, they would have had to vent their anger in another way, like by playing music or painting.

The second amendment managed to kill 9 potential artists. Pathetic.

Tribal shit like this is the bread and butter of African history. I just wish they would behave in a more realistic manner and eventually finish each other off with the same frevor the motherland does. Think old East/West coast rap wars but with a wider scope. Sickle cell isn't working fast enough, and grape/menthol flavored rat poison is too obvious.