It's been awhile since we've done a Chiraq update, so I am sad to tell you that the city is still basically Gotham with Glock switches.
The shooting took place outside a bar at around 11 p.m. Wednesday, and little detail was available Thursday morning. A large group of people were on the 300 block of West Chicago Avenue on the Near North Side when people inside a dark vehicle drove past, fired into the crowd and drove away, police said.
The shooting took place outside the Artis Lounge, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office, where local rapper Mello Buckzz had planned an album release party, according to social media. No identities for the deceased had been released as of Thursday morning.
So to sum up the likely scenario: A carful of young black men rolled up to a black rapper's party and shot 18 people (most or all of them likely black), killing four of them.
This, in a city that has TONS of gun laws, in a state that has TONS of gun laws.
And yet this will be just a blip in the news. The media simply does not care about black-on-black crime.
Hours after the shooting, it wasn't yet clear if the album's release played a factor. For the last 15 years, Chicago's drill rap scene has often led to fatal gun violence as rival artists trade insults and threats through their lyrics and social media taunts.
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Two women, whose ages weren't immediately available, were shot in the chest and pronounced dead at Northwestern Hospital, police said. Two men, ages 24 and 25, were shot in the chest and head respectively and pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital, police said.
Here is a photo taken from a video of the scene. I censored one woman's bloody leg and blood on the sidewalk.
Here's another one showing the red carpet as police apply trauma pads to bullet wounds.
The second video in this tweet shows a driver who caught the gunshots on audio.
Absolutely tragic.
But we're not allowed to talk about it, lest we be labeled bigots.
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