Pregnant woman among 3 shot on Chicago expressway after SUV breaks down

[Playinghardball]

Source: NBC News

Three people were injured, including a pregnant woman, early Saturday morning after a gunman opened fire into an SUV that broke down along a Chicago expressway, officials said.

Illinois State Police said a 2008 Buick SUV broke down just before 1:30 a.m. on a southbound ramp to 71st Street off of Interstate 94.

While the Buick was waiting for help, a black Dodge Charger with orange stripes pulled up and began to shoot inside the Buick, police said.

The 27-year-old driver of the car was shot four times in his upper extremities while two female passengers in the car, one of them pregnant, were struck several times, police said.

A 19-year-old woman in the back of the car was shot six times in her lower body and a 24-year-old pregnant woman was shot three times in her lower body, police said.



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[onehandle]

1. Guns are handy. nt

[DonP]

7. Not in Chicago

It's still gun free.

Legal concealed carry is still 5 months away. But thank heaven for those gun bans here, they work so well.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-crime-shooting-homicide-murder-west-lawn--20140118,0,872891.story

Teen shot by robbers after handing over cellphone dies

A teen shot Thursday after handing over his cellphone to robbers has died, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said Saturday.

Kevin Baker, 19, was shot in the head and abdomen Thursday in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood while heading home from classes at Harold Washington College, his family said earlier this week. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, officials said.

He was pronounced dead at Christ at 5:45 a.m. Saturday, the medical examiner's office said, and an autopsy is scheduled for Sunday morning.

[Loudly]

8. Bans or permits don't matter.

Access to guns is a simple matter of *abundance.*

Bloodshed for profit.

[sendero]

28. And they will ALWAYS..,.

..... be abundant and there isn't ANYTHING you can do about it.

[Loudly]

31. Japan is the model. n/t

[sendero]

32. So America is going to become..

... Japan overnight? Why do people persist in presenting ideas that have zero, I mean absolutely zero chance of becoming reality?

It is not going to happen. Britiian is not going to happen. Canada is not going to happen.

None of them are going to happen so why are you wasting your time, you might as well dream of unicorns shitting skittles.

[Orsino]

37. When enough people are hurt by gun violence...

...America will begin to deal with the overabundance of guns.

I shudder to think of what "enough" means in this context. Enough to overcome the culture's faux-macho worship of the gun as an extension of the white man's penis and a tool for fake liberty, I guess, and that's a hell of a lot of violence.

[hack89]

39. Considering we have cut our murder rate in half since 1990

And with violent crime at historic lows and continuing to decline, I am not sure the public will reach the same conclusion you have.

[Orsino]

41. We agree.

As long as we tell ourselves that our level of gun violence is low, or lowish, or otherwise acceptable, we won't demand change.

[hack89]

42. No - as long as it continues to decline

people will not demand extraordinary solutions. There will be other priorities such as jobs, education and healthcare

[tabasco]

38. LOL.

Why should change for the better have to happen overnight?

It is going to happen, but not in our lifetimes.

[Ranchemp.]

33. Japan is the model?

The same Japan that can use a coerced confession in a criminal trial?
The same Japan that gives a defendant no right to counsel?
The same Japan that gives police the right to search anything, anywhere, anytime without a warrant?
That Japan?

Your dream of America ever becoming like Japan concerning firearms is just that, a dream.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. Oh bullshit. Get yourself a map and see how close that location is to Indiana ....

.... And the south suburbs. You don't have to go far to get a gun and, last time I checked, chicago doesn't have border checkpoints.

Why evens spout stupid shit like that.

[DonP]

17. Stupid is as stupid does, ever try to buya gun in Indiana?

Wow, I didn't know pompous ignorance of reality was a proud progressive value for some.

No Indiana FFL will sell you a gun unless it's transferred to an Illinois FFL. Same form 4473, same Illinois waiting period. Or perhaps you can give us some examples of FFLs that do that in Indiana?

You make it sound like you just walk in throw your money on the Indiana counter and walk out with a gun. That's just fucking stupid.

Or are you talking about buying a gun illegally? Hell, why go to Indiana, they can do that on any street corner, or rent one for a day or two.

But feel free to come wander through our gun free city. It has all the laws you could want. No carry, no assault weapons, FOID cards, waiting periods, universal background checks.

It's a fucking paradise with only 508 people, many under 18, killed last year doing it your way.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

18. I live in chicago . So you can go to Indiana and get an illegal gun. You admit it.

So stifle on the gun free zone crap. I suppose you never heard of a straw purchase. I know you have.

[Skittles]

26. LOLOL

you're a hoot

[Blandocyte]

20. Bad guys still get guns and good guys are legally restricted

The real solution is total ban and total confiscation. Until then, let those without criminal records have a gun if they want it.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

21. About twenty years ago, mid 90s, the was a rookie cop by the name of Ceriale.

He was killed by a kid, a drug lookout, with a gun purchased locally. Yeah, I mean locally. As in just a few miles over the border in one of the nearby south suburbs.

During an investigation, it turned out a (I don't remember the numbers) large number of crimes (that could be traced back to a gun) were committed by people with guns purchased at a handful of LOCAL gun shops.

During undercover stings, the shops were busted knowingly selling guns to straw buyers. The straw buyers were often girlfriends of gang bangers.

So when some right wing douche bag calls Chicago a "gun free zone" - you will know the rest of the story.

[sendero]

29. Merely validating the blatantly obvious to.

... anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together, idiotic "gun control" laws DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to stop criminals from getting guns.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

43. Good guys like these?

[billh58]

9. See!

I told you these shootings would happen if everybody doesn't carry a concealed lethal weapon. If only the pregnant lady would have been carrying, she and her companions would not have been shot.

Such simple logic, and no one listens...

[riversedge]

2. Good GAWD!! What have we become!!

[wordpix]

23. we are now Iraq and Afghanistan

Horrible

[snooper2]

30. Our fundies are burning down schools for girls while they are still inside?

Fuck I've been missing a lot of news

[Ranchemp.]

34. We are now Iraq and Afghanistan?

Last time I looked, I don't see many car bombs going off in America, don't see many IED's being planted in America, don't see many religious police whipping woman for showing their faces, don't see many girls schools being burned down with the girls inside.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

3. Back in the day I remember

teaching down around 39th & State when snipers in the Robert Taylor homes were firing at cars on the Dan Ryan Expressway. We had a gun problem back then, too. (Around 1979.)

[valerief]

4. If only there was a gun dispenser every 10 feet on the highway! Gungeoneer logic. nt

[billh58]

5. According to the Second Amendment absolutists

this is just another overblown story attempting to make guns and gunners look bad in the most armed and dangerous country in the civilized world.

Move along, nothing to see here folks...

[olddad56]

11. how do you make a story like this look good?

[billh58]

12. Like this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172135753

[valerief]

13. Ick!!! That's a link the Gungeon!!! That's like the DU sewer. nt

[shenmue]

6. Oh no

[progressoid]

10. Stand yer ground would have fixed that.

[rocktivity]

14. This doesn't sound like a random shooting to me

Last edited Sat Aug 29, 2020, 06:15 PM - Edit history (1)

A case of mistaken identity? Or perhaps the Buick broke down because it had been hit by a bullet already.


rocktivity

[lunasun]

22. don't know, but plenty of senseless shootings of innocent victims in Chi

would not be the first ...

[wordpix]

24. I agree

Could be a drug hit or some other stupid "reason" to shoot. Lots of this stuff happening in the inner city everywhere people are poor, don't have jobs, get into gangs and selling drugs, "have to" protect their turf...

[ManiacJoe]

25. Nor to me.

> This doesn't sound like a random shooting to me

[Ranchemp.]

35. I agree.

This sounds like a targeted hit.

[CFLDem]

16. Gun bans are a farce

when you can print them out at home.

As a nation we need to do a much better job of ensuring young people and needy families have a purpose and a means in life so they don't join gangs in the first place.

We need to be willing to take care of the root cause.

[Lurks Often]

19. Your post makes too much sense and does not contain enought outrage!

I'm sure someone will be along to accuse you of not belonging here.

[ileus]

27. I see buick is still junk...

I really like some of their latest offerings especially that "micro" SUV.

[flvegan]

36. The parents of the shooter(s) must be so very proud.

Worthless little waste of space you (might have) helped raise there.

[Beacool]

40. I don't get it, why were they shot?

A car breaks down with several passengers and another car passes by and shoots them for no reason?

We live in a crazy world.