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Editor's note: Certain areas in the City of Chicago are dead zones. Given the current level of gun fire in these dead zones, every 2:23 seconds a person is shot in Chicago (Chicago Murder & Mayhem). So far this year in the "windy city" (name changed to the shooting city), 2,497 people have been shot with 444 people dead. There have been 69 people shot in Chicago since September 1. In 2:23 seconds after this post is published that number will go up. 

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Source: NBC Chicago

Activists Left to Mourn, Search for Solutions as More Than 50 Shot Across Chicago This Weekend

September 5, 2022

More than 50 people were shot across the city of Chicago over the Labor Day weekend, and as families mourn the victims of those shootings, others are also feeling the heartache that gun violence has wrought.

One such shooting occurred in the 8600 block of South Kingston at approximately 6:47 p.m. Sunday. In that incident, at least four people were, and two young men were killed in a hail of gunfire.

Their story is all too familiar to Pastor Tom Kennington of the South Chicago Christian Center, who knew the victims.

"I came by like a half hour before," he said. "I got home, heard the shots, and came right back over."

Police say an 18-year-old man, identified as Jason Mundo by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, was shot multiple times, and was pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Another 20-year-old man was shot in the buttocks and the stomach, and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he too succumbed to his injuries.

Two other victims, an 18-year-old man and a 20-year-old man, were taken to area hospitals in fair condition after the shooting.

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The suspect in this kidnapping and murder case in Memphis is black. The level of savagery including the shootings in Chicago are incomprehensible and are only going to get worse. 

Memphis police find unidentified body 3 days after a teacher was violently abducted

Here is another war zone: Houston, Texas:

Harris County Is a War Zone