Monday, September 18, 2017

Chicago records 500 homicide foe 2017 but behind last year's rate.

Chicago Records 500th Homicide for 2017: Report

Chicago has reached a bloody milestone amid a particularly deadly weekend that saw at least 10 people killed and 31 others wounded in shootings across the city.
The weekend killings lifted the city to more than 500 homicides for the year so far, according to data from the Chicago Tribune
Chicago police said as of Sunday evening, 490 homicides had been reported for the year, but the department's statistics don't include killings on area expressways, police-involved shootings, self-defense killings or death investigations.
Last year, which became of Chicago's bloddiest in decades, the city recorded its 500th homicide in late-August. 


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