Fatal Shooting Of Boy, 15, Closes Deadliest May In Chicago In 21 Years

[Purveyor]

Source: Chicago Tribune

By Alexandra Chachkevitch , Rosemary Regina Sobol and Jeremy Gorner
June 2, 2016

The gray sedan was parked in the ambulance bay of the hospital, its doors open and bullet holes just above and below the driver's side window.

Minutes earlier, 15-year-old Fabien Lavinder was in the car on 89th Street when someone stepped from an alley near Commercial Avenue and shot him in the chest, Chicago police said. He died shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday at Advocate Trinity Hospital.

Fabien was the 66th and final homicide victim last month, the deadliest May in Chicago since 1995 when 75 were slain, according to official Police Department records.

For the first five months of this year, 243 people have been killed, the most fatalities since 248 perished in 1999, a Tribune analysis of department statistics found. By the end of 1999, homicides totaled 643 that year.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-may-violence-20160601-story.html

[Vinca]

1. That's about the same number of people on the EgyptAir jet that crashed.

No 24/7 coverage of Chicago, though. Some people seem to matter more than others. Even 2 dead people at UCLA warranted special coverage.

[Initech]

2. Thanks NRA!

[840high]

3. What about the strict gun laws?

[LanternWaste]

4. I'd blame firearm laws instead of people as well

I'd blame firearm laws instead of people as well if I had nothing other than petulance to speak from.

[840high]

5. Since I'm not familiar

with Chicago - that was an honest question.

[beevul]

7. Unless you had spent years complaining about 'lax' gun laws...

Unless you had spent years complaining about 'lax' gun laws, in which case you'd do anything in your power to ignore Chicagos strict gun laws and the effects they aren't having.

[NobodyHere]

6. If you're willing to commit murder

Then you probably have no problem breaking a few gun laws.

[christx30]

8. There are already strict laws for

who can possess firearms there. What good are laws if people won't follow them, or they are not caught when they break those laws?
What other laws could be passed that would have prevented the murders in Chicago?
So let's say you ban weapons tomorrow. What's to stop someone from owning and possessing it? No magic happens that makes the weapon dissolve in it's holster. You still have to catch the criminal holding onto his piece.

[840high]

9. So true. Thank you.

[ManiacJoe]

10. Criminals doing criminal things.