Chicago boy, 9, dead in shooting, possibly 'targeted'

[Dick Whitman]

You hear about a lot of kids getting gunned down in the cross fire meant for someone else. But this is particularly chilling.

Cops: Slain boy, 9, may have been targeted

 

[YankeeFan]

Shot multiple times, at close range, in an alley? Yeah, it sounds like he was the one the bullets were intended for.

So, what did he do, or witness?

And, there were reportedly multiple witnesses. Will they cooperate with the police?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Shot multiple times, at close range, in an alley? Yeah, it sounds like he was the one the bullets were intended for.

So, what did he do, or witness?

And, there were reportedly multiple witnesses. Will they cooperate with the police?

The second one of them is offered a day of sentencing reduction in his own case, he will cooperate.

 

[Dick Whitman]

They are looking into the idea that the boy was shot and killed as retaliation for his father's role or his father's gang's role in some recent shootings. Apparently someone's grandmother was shot and injured in one of the prior shootings.

He wasn't the only innocent gunned down in Chicago yesterday. A 20-year-old college student from Evanston who had just beat out 500 other women to win a modeling contest was shot and killed in the Englewood neighborhood while visiting her grandmother. She was walking to the bus stop to head back to the north side.

Evanston woman who won modeling contest shot, killed in Chicago

 

[Dick Whitman]

The 9-year-old was lured into an alley and executed while he was walking to his grandmother's house, as retaliation against his father in an ongoing gang war. It sounds like McCarthy is confident that they know who did it.

McCarthy says 9-year-old boy targeted, lured into alley and executed

 

[YankeeFan]

Asian gangs would have never done something like this. They have too much respect for family.

 

[Songbird]

We're getting close to the bottom if we're executing 9-year-old boys for the sins of his father.

 

[poindexter]

There's finally a black father involved in his kid's life, and this is what happens...

 

[Dick Whitman]

There's finally a black father involved in his kid's life, and this is what happens...

My guess is that he wasn't going over his spelling words with him on Thursday nights.

 

[User 11148]

Generally I'm as up for glib and sarcasm as anyone ... not on this story.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Generally I'm as up for glib and sarcasm as anyone ... not on this story.

I don't think my comment was very clear. I mean that I don't get the feeling that this gang banger was "involved in his kid's life" as we think of it.

 

[User 11148]

I don't think my comment was very clear. I mean that I don't get the feeling that this gang banger was "involved in his kid's life" as we think of it.

It really wasn't your post that drew that comment from me. I was speaking more generally about the thread.

 

[poindexter]

Sorry to be so flippant, but I'm immune to this.

Dad's 16 when he became a father. Dad's a convicted felon. Dad's a gang banger. Nobody wants to talk to the police. Nobody wants to cooperate with the police.

What are we expecting, a feel good story?

 

[User 11148]

Sorry to be so flippant, but I'm immune to this.

Dad's 16 when he became a father. Dad's a convicted felon. Dad's a gang banger. Nobody wants to talk to the police. Nobody wants to cooperate with the police.

What are we expecting, a feel good story?

I understand.

 

[Songbird]

 

[Songbird]

6-year-olds, 9-year-olds, female judges ... the hits just keep on coming.

Judge in stable condition.

 

[YankeeFan]

Go Fund Me account set up to raise money for funeral expenses raises enough for mom to buy a new car -- and show it off on Instagram:

 

[heyabbott]

#blm. #yalecares. #nojusticenopeace

 

[Dick Whitman]

Just re-checking the thread to catch up on Mr. Sunshine's contributions.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

Just re-checking the thread to catch up on Mr. Sunshine's contributions.

I've been following this thread from the beginning. I liked dq's post early in the thread because he said what I felt. And as I mentioned, the shooting of the 6-year-old in Louisiana is a bit personal to me, so that's why I started a thread.

Now that we've gotten that out of the way, I feel it is my duty to point out that even if you weren't a lawyer, you'd be a bad person.