CHICAGO (CBS) — With 78 homicides, October was the second deadliest month of 2016, and Chicago surpassed 600 homicides for the first time in more than a decade.
The last time Chicago had at least 600 homicides in a single year was 2003.
Homicides and non-fatal shootings have skyrocketed in 2016, with 605 homicides and more than 3,600 shooting victims through the end of October.
In October, there were 78 homicides and 427 shooting victims. Only August had more homicides, when 90 people were slain in Chicago. It was the bloodiest month in the city in 20 years.
The city is on pace for 726 homicides in 2016, a number not seen since the late 1990s.
Chicago police said the majority of the increase in violence this year has happened in five districts on the South Side and West Side, but Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said his officers were not outmanned in those areas. MORE
Some guy living in a white house in Washington DC who alleges to be from Chicago could not be reached for comment.
Ain’t the toughest gun control laws in the US (worse than NY’s if you can believe it–I can; I live in NY with family in Illinois) doing a lot to protect the citizenry?
Pardon me while I puke.
WINNING!
I the wild, isolated species tended to inbreed, pass-on mutated genes, run out of food, kill each other and eventually die off.
Let me know when that last part happens.
IN…Dammit, IN the wild!
It’s caused by global climate change.
No cause for alarm, white people are not involved in the culling.