Weekend shootings leave 9 dead, 22 wounded

Nine people are dead and 22 others –– including a 3-year-old boy –– have been wounded in shootings throughout the city from Friday night to Sunday night.

The most recent fatality happened about 10:15 p.m. Sunday when 17-year-old Lenard Trust, of the 800 block of 45th Street, was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head near his home.

The other fatalities included:

Myrion Currie, 19, of Mississippi, shot multiple times in the chest in the 4100 block of West Van Buren Street about 8:12 p.m. Sunday. A 15-year-old was also critically wounded in the shooting.

Kelly Vann, 49, of the 8900 block of South Commercial Avenue, who died after police found him at 2:14 a.m. Sunday with a gunshot wound to the temple in an abandoned lot in the 8800 block of South Exchange Avenue.

Demarcus Ervin, 22, of the 200 block of North Lockwood Avenue, who was shot in the head in the 3100 block of West Van Buren Street. A 27-year-old man and 21-year-old woman were also wounded in the shooting.

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IBWhatDoYouMeanYouPeople...

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It appears the biggest crime in Chicago is living there, as the penalty seems to be death.

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If the gunshots don't kill you, the taxes and bureaucratic red tape will.  Union will fucking extort you to do any work. It cost me $6k to change a light fixture in a retail property there. Took 4 months to get the permit pulled. I had to do another one a month later. I was told by the permitting office to pay an expediter if I didn't want to wait so long for the permit. I paid an expediter $800 and the second permit took 6 months.  WTF?

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Good thing they have all those gun control laws.

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Sounds like a racket to me.

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Sounds like a racket to me.