15 People Shot at Funeral In Chicago

[teamgreen02]

Community members warned police there could be violence.  Police squad stationed at the funeral.  Gun battle proceeds anyways, 15 shot. 

How long will this be allowed to continue?  

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/07/22/sources-multiple-people-shot-near-funeral-home-in-auburn-gresham/

CHICAGO (CBS) — At least 15 people were wounded Tuesday evening in a mass shooting directed at people attending a funeral in the Auburn Gresham community.

There were 10 female victims and five male victims, according to an update from Chicago police early Wednesday morning. The victims range in age from 21 to 65 years old. Police said at least six people are in serious condition Wednesday morning.

It began as a solemn ceremony for a victim of gun violence, and ended up becoming a gruesome scene of gun violence unto itself.

Chicago Police First Deputy Supt. Eric Carter said a black vehicle was heading west on 79th Street at 6:30 p.m., when people inside began firing at attendees of a funeral. The funeral was taking place at the Rhodes Funeral Services funeral home at 1018 W. 79th St.

Chicago police said the vehicle involved was stolen. Police said there is video surveillance of the shooting incident, but the video is not graphic enough to identify the offenders.

On Wednesday morning, police said they believe there are three suspects.

The attendees of the funeral began firing back at the vehicle, which turned north on Carpenter Street and kept firing at people from the funeral before crashing into a parked car midway down the block.

The occupants got out and fled in multiple directions, Carter said.

One person of interest was being interviewed Tuesday night.

Carter said the victims were taken to five hospitals. At least 60 shell casings were located.

The Fire Department said at least nine people were transported by ambulances from the scene. The Fire Department said Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and the University of Chicago Medical Center received most of the victims.

Victims were also taken, or found their way to, St. Bernard Hospital, OSF Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Evergreen Park, and Stroger Hospital of Cook County.

The Fire Department said two additional victims were found near 63rd street and were in the process of self-transporting, for a total of 11 transports by their ambulances.

One woman was shot multiple times, and the patients they transported ranged from serious to critical condition at the time they were taken to the hospital, the Fire Department said.

The victims were all adults and no children were shot, police said.

“Right now, it’s not known if anyone was not a part of the funeral or a part of the vehicle,” Carter said. “Of the 14 victims, it’s unknown right now if there were any bystanders, so to speak.”

But CBS 2’s Jermont Terry later learned one victim was an innocent bystander. At Advocate Christ, the woman’s family said she lives next to the funeral home and was outside for a cigarette break when she was caught in the gunfire.

The woman was fighting for her life Tuesday night, her family said.]

Sources said there was some kind of planned ambush outside the funeral home.

The funeral was for Donnie Weathersby, 31, who was shot and killed on the afternoon of last Tuesday, July 14, at 74th Street and Stewart Avenue in Englewood. Weathersby was shot in the torso and head, CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar reported.

Sources told CBS 2’s Brad Edwards that police were forewarned there could be a retaliatory strike at the funeral service. Carter said a squad car was assigned to the funeral.

“That was assigned by the district commander as a precaution because the size of the funeral,” Carter said.

De Mar spoke with people at the scene who said they were at Weathersby’s funeral service when the shots started.

“I saw body after body on the ground,” said witness Arnita Jeder. “It’s a war out here.”

Jeder says she heard the shots and then saw the bodies spilling from Rhodes Funeral Services.

“Why are they shooting like this? This is ridiculous,” Jeder said. “Enough is enough.”

Of the victims, witness Kenneth Hughes said, “There was more woman than men.”

Family rushed to the funeral home after learning loved ones were shot.

“Someone we know was at a service. Someone called us and told us that they were hurt,” one victim’s family member said.

De Mar also spoke to a woman who had blood on her jeans and who did not know whose blood it was.

“There was one guy – he was wounded, stretched out,” Hughes added. “He look deceased.”

De Mar also talked with Tamar Manasseh, the founder of the group Mothers Against Senseless Killing. She said as recently as Tuesday morning, she spoke with Chicago Police – with whom she has a direct line – about the potential for violence at the funeral.

Manasseh said she asked for a special police detail at the funeral.

She said she was talking about the potential for violence for several days on her own social media, and said not enough was done to prevent it.

Following the shooting, some victims just walked into hospitals with gunshot wounds, and officers even took some victims to hospitals, sources told CBS 2’s Terry.

Some people were treated in front of the nearby Cookie’s Cocktail Lounge at 1024 W. 79th St.

The shooting happened in the Gresham (6th) Police District. Officers from the Englewood (7th) and Grand Crossing (4th) districts, sources told Edwards.

The mass shooting also came on the heels of President Donald Trump offering a reported 175 federal agents to come in and help deal with violence in Chicago. Sources told CBS 2’s Brad Edwards those agents had already arrived in Chicago Tuesday night.

Some law enforcement personnel in military fatigues were spotted at the scene of the shooting, but it was not clear whether they were federal agents.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued a series of tweets on the shooting Tuesday night.

“While families were mourning at a funeral in Auburn Gresham, cowardly gunmen opened fire, wounding 14 in a horrific mass shooting. @Chicago_Police are canvassing for evidence and street outreach teams have been deployed to provide trauma and victim support services for residents,” the mayor wrote. “Far too many have suffered. Far too many have attended funerals and tried to start the process of healing entire communities following another senseless tragedy. When a person picks up a gun, we suffer as a city. This cannot be who we are.”

As Chicago Police Supt. David Brown addressed the public Wednesday morning, he said there are 117,000 gang members in Chicago and there are 55 major gangs in the city. Brown said CPD is seeking witnesses of this shooting.

“This is about gangs, guns and drugs,” Brown said.

Lightfoot echoed Brown’s request and urged the public to provide information on the shooter. She said tips can be made anonymously.

“Anyone with information, I implore you not to be silent in this moment,” Lightfoot.

Crime statistics indicated there were 13 murders last month in the area, compared with three in June 2019. There were five murders in the area just last week.

In the Gresham District, there have been 132 shootings so far this year before Tuesday night, compared with 100 in the same period last year, for an increase of 32 percent.

[Mainecat]

God bless the second amendment.

[ford_428cj]

Gotta be the white mans fault somehow ...

[irv]

Just now, ford_428cj said:

Gotta be the white mans fault somehow ...

Or Trump's........

[Snake]

Time for Vince to post

25 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

God bless the second amendment.

White/Orange Man/Republican Bad comments to take the shine off this turd.

[Snake]

26 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

God bless the second amendment.

Vets fought for that right.

SMFH

[Stephen Hawking]

I wonder if they were holding the guns correctly. 

[Highmark]

Until someone (LE or community) does something about the gangs the violence will continue.   Somehow they need to destroy the gang organizations that perpetuate the violence.   Some places its worse than the cocaine wars of south Florida in the late 70's and 80's.  

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/19/magazine/can-miami-save-itself-a-city-beset-by-drugs-and-violence.html

 Then came the Marielitos. In the last seven months, there were 169 murders. In 1980-81, Miami had the highest murder rate of any city in the world. So many bodies piled up in the morgue that at one point the coroner had to rent a refrigerator van to handle the overflow. The narcotics wars were escalating. It was an era when Colombian and Cuban dealers would pull alongside each other at stoplights and blast away with submachine guns.

 

[Snake]

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Edited July 22, 2020 by Snake

[spin_dry]

This is only the beginning 

[Edmo]

5 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

This is only the beginning 

Beginning?  Sometimes I believe you really do live under a rock. 

[XCR1250]

2 hours ago, Snake said:

Vets fought for that right.

SMFH

 

2 hours ago, Mainecat said:

God bless the second amendment.

Felon's shooting folks with weapons they aren't allowed to have has nothing to do with the 2nd. amendment.

[Anler]

Happens all the time. All of dudes homies usually show up to the funeral so you can cap em while they are all in one place!

[spin_dry]

29 minutes ago, Anler said:

Happens all the time. All of dudes homies usually show up to the funeral so you can cap em while they are all in one place!

Mafia did that. But they were Italian white guys. Black haired Catholics. American drones bombed families at funerals in Afghanistan.  This is really nothing new. 

[Snake]

2 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

Mafia did that. But they were Italian white guys. Black haired Catholics. American drones bombed families at funerals in Afghanistan.  This is really nothing new. 

Sooo above it all.

[spin_dry]

2 minutes ago, Snake said:

Sooo above it all.

Truth is a son of a bitch.  

[Anler]

9 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

Mafia did that. But they were Italian white guys. Black haired Catholics. American drones bombed families at funerals in Afghanistan.  This is really nothing new. 

The EYEtalians invented the drive by shooting back in prohibition. It went away for years until the movie colors came out. Then it started happening again. 

[Mainecat]

1 hour ago, XCR1250 said:

 

Felon's shooting folks with weapons they aren't allowed to have has nothing to do with the 2nd. amendment.

You miss the point.

[XCR1250]

4 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

You miss the point.

Yes you do.

[DriftBusta]

1 hour ago, spin_dry said:

Truth is a son of a bitch.  

Like Black Lives Matter?

[Angry ginger]

5 minutes ago, DriftBusta said:

Like Black Lives Matter?

black lives do matter

 

 

 

 

then again so do white and brown lives.   I was offended this morning when discover was running an ad about how woke they were in supporting black restaurants.  WTF-  what about the white, chinese, mexicans and indians restaurant owners who are trying to survive in this pandemic. 

 

 

[DriftBusta]

2 hours ago, Angry ginger said:

black lives do matter

 

 

 

 

then again so do white and brown lives.   I was offended this morning when discover was running an ad about how woke they were in supporting black restaurants.  WTF-  what about the white, chinese, mexicans and indians restaurant owners who are trying to survive in this pandemic. 

 

 

well that was kind of my point.  Town I still consider home has 15,000 people and more cows than people.  1.5% AA population.  FIrst selectman posted this meme, and all the virtual signaling SJWs (usually early 20s white females still living at home) are all losing their shit demanding her resignation.    Big BLM protest and counter protest.   Oh and she's a lesbian too.  5 generation family in town and she's the least racist person you could know.  Cancel culture can suck a dick.

[spin_dry]

2 hours ago, DriftBusta said:

Like Black Lives Matter?

I bet the US military killed more innocent civilians before packing up and leaving Iraq. Don’t you think? 

[franks pond]

15-19 almost as many deaths as people watching biden in his live stream

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