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Child and two teenagers die after dozens of shootings across Chicago

The young boy was “the unintended victim of a bullet meant for his father”.

PastedImage-15786 The scene where the child was shot. Screenshot Screenshot

A CONVULSION OF gun violence left seven people dead in 33 shooting incidents across Chicago during a chaotic Independence Day weekend in the midwestern US city, police say.

Among the dead was a seven-year-old boy who was fatally shot in the chest after returning from a Fourth of July celebration, US media reports said.

The city’s police superintendent Garry McCarthy said the boy was ”the unintended victim of a bullet meant for his father”, The Chicago Tribune reports, noting that his father is a high-ranking member of a street gang with dozens of previous convictions.

He is also not co-operating with police in their investigation into his son’s death.

Speaking on the topic of gun crime, McCarthy added:

If you think that putting more cops on the street would make a difference, then take a look at the fact that we put a third more manpower on the street for this weekend.

The warm weather and the fact that it was a holiday weekend was believed to partly explain the spike in gun crime.

Much of the bloodshed happened in just eight hours until 4:45 am on Sunday, The Chicago Tribune said, identifying a 16-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl among the victims.

Nine people have been shot and 46 injured by gunfire since Thursday.

© AFP 2015additional reporting by Nicky Ryan

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    Apr 28th 2022, 9:00 AM

    Justice that takes nearly 6 years is not justice nevermind fining an entity less than they spend on pencils.

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    Apr 28th 2022, 10:43 AM

    @Bunny Johnson: Yea, should have fined them 23 million, not 23 thousand. Because it will come directly from the pockets of HSE management and not from the pockets of already hard pressed taxpa……oh, wait.

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    Apr 28th 2022, 11:15 AM

    @Tommy Roche: A judgement needs to be meaningful. If a fine is the method applicable then 10K is a meaningless amount, as always the legal teams received more than the fine! There needs to be proper repercussions and improvements not meaningless fines. Sack people.

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    Apr 28th 2022, 12:01 PM

    @Tommy Roche: so let’s see lets not compensate people who are victims of state misgivings because taxpayers would carry the burden. Oh wait…. You are wrong not just on the point I’ve made here but on several economics fronts as well which tells me you dont know what taxpayers money does or how it works and also why this money is good for the economy going to a worker.

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    Apr 28th 2022, 1:45 PM

    @Allora: I never mentioned compensation for victims wronged by the State. The article doesn’t mention compensation either. The money will not be good for the economy as it is a fine, not compensation, and as such will not be going to a worker. And maybe look up the word ‘misgivings’. I think you’ll find it doesn’t mean what you think it means.

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    Apr 28th 2022, 6:22 PM

    @Tommy Roche: you are correct I should not have used misgivings in there. Shortcomings is what I meant to put there and my point stands. Yes I know the worker won’t get the money but still this fine is necessary. I was fined last week for parking illegally & will claim it as an expense. Its the same thing.

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    Apr 28th 2022, 10:37 AM

    What about the nurses who were injured? Were they compensated?

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    Apr 28th 2022, 11:06 AM

    @Dave Harris: That would be a different state quango to the Health and Safety Authority. I assume the nurses lodged a claim with the PIAB within two years of the incident likely citing the HSE as respondents. Both parties likely accepted the PIAB assessment, hence the HSE admitting liability so this fine was only part of the cost.

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    Apr 28th 2022, 1:41 PM

    So in other words the Government has basically fined itself? Or am I missing something?

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