'Mutual combatants?'....wait for it

[Counselor706]

Illinois prosecutors rejected charging five suspects in a deadly gang-related shootout that unfolded in Chicago, despite police reportedly seeking to charge all five suspects with murder and aggravated battery.

The shootout took place in the Austin community of Chicago Friday morning, and was reportedly sparked by an internal dispute between two factions of the Four Corner Hustlers gang, the Chicago Sun Times reported, citing an internal police report and a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation.

Five men were taken into custody over the shootout, which required a SWAT team response and led to police finding more than 70 shell casings. One shooter was left dead and two of the suspects wounded.

"Mutual combatants was cited as the reason for the rejection," a police report reviewed by the Chicago Sun Times said of the state attorney’s office’s decision. The report also noted that the suspects weren’t cooperating with investigators.

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Chicago...

Year to Date
Shot & Killed: 623
Shot & Wounded:.3002
Total Shot: 3625
Total Homicides: 660

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Total numbers are a joke as a statistic
Would you like to change that to a death per thousands?!
Still shitty I am sure, but at least it would be honest shit

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Total numbers are a joke as a statistic
Would you like to change that to a death per thousands?!
Still shitty I am sure, but at least it would be honest shit

Agreed, but absolute numbers are still useful for longitudinal comparison.

If you want stratospheric per-capital numbers, look at the Dem shithole of STL.

 

[Counselor706]

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There is an outcry from the mayor and some Chicago aldermen after men linked by police to a deadly gang shootout in Austin last week were released from custody. Prosecutors declined to charge each of them with a pair of felonies, including first-degree murder.

New video from city pod cameras shows what police say is two people pulling up and opening fire at an Austin home. They ducked for cover as the people inside fired back. One person was killed and two others were hurt in the shootout. Three people were arrested.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and some West Side aldermen called on Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx to reverse her decision on the case.

"If they do not feel like the criminal justice system is going to hold them accountable, we're going to see a level of brazenness that will send the city into chaos and we cannot let that happen," the mayor said Monday.

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[Champakian]

Agreed, but absolute numbers are still useful for longitudinal comparison.

If you want stratospheric per-capital numbers, look at the Dem shithole of STL.

Avoid East St. Louie at al costs.
They shoot strangers.

 

[FGB]

I thought dueling was illegal?

 

[Counselor706]

CHICAGO (CBS) — A “mortified” Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx on Tuesday stood by her office’s decision to reject charges in a deadly West Side shootout, and criticized Mayor Lori Lightfoot for making statements that “were not factually accurate” about the case, as the mayor is now calling for a federal investigation of the shooting.

On Tuesday, Lightfoot repeated her call for Foxx’s office to reconsider its decision to reject charges in the case.

“I’d like her to explain, because I can’t explain it,” the mayor said. “We have to understand how it’s possible, when this kind of shootout is captured on film, that there were no charges of any person, even though people were brought into custody and arrested.”

Lightfoot said she will be meeting with Foxx to discuss the case, but added she is also asking the U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago to look into the possibility of filing federal charges.

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