Reposted by Nicholas Stix
Thanks to Prince George’s County Expat for this story.
I and others have been criticizing the Trib for years for its worthless crime coverage, and it has responded! Note that in the story below, alleged reporters from the Trib acted as if they were recounting eyewitness accounts of crimes, but if you read carefully, all the writers are giving us are people saying they saw the corpses of the victims. Big whoop! With all due respect to the deceased and their loved ones, the Trib’s crack “reporters” have already told us they’re dead. The point of interviewing crime witnesses, is to get their accounts of the crime. And when Nickeas and his accomplices actually know valuable information about a crime, such as that one of the vics was a known gang members, they let us know that they know this, but refuse to tell us what the vic’s gang was, much less the name of the gang that tried to rub him out.
Look, I know how hard crime reporting is. I’m a crime reporter. But if you’re not interested in finding out what happened, why bother going to crime scenes?
About a year ago, I saw Peter Nickeas, or as I call him, Nameless Nickeas, on a TV discussion with other phony journalists, mostly black supremacists. He has no interest whatsoever in digging, and telling the truth about crime in Chicago. He writes up worthless, instantly forgettable shooting packets, with virtually nothing to leave the reader with anything to hang his memory on. Nickeas then moves on to the next shooting packet, with little or no follow-up. He’s a young, leftist hack who, when he’s not writing senseless shooting packets, spouts senseless talking points about “gun violence.” There is no gun violence in Chicago, or anywhere else. Guns are not driving around town shooting people.
13 shot as holiday weekend begins: “It's like an everyday normal thing”
• Crime Scenes
• 3800 W Monroe St, Chicago, IL, 60624, United States
• W 63rd St & S Damen Ave, Chicago, IL, 60636, United States
• W 47th St & S Ada St, Chicago, IL, 60609, United States
• 4300 S Wood St, Chicago, IL, 60609, United States
• 2400 S Homan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60623, United States
• 6700 S Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
• 600 N Ridgeway Ave, Chicago, IL, 60624, United States
By Peter Nickeas, Michelle Manchir and Liam Ford
9:50 p.m. CDT, July 6, 2014
Chicago Tribune
At least 13 people have been shot in Chicago at the start of the long holiday weekend, including a woman killed as she sat on a porch near Garfield Park and a man slain in front of a hair salon on the South Side, police said.
Shambreyh R. Barfield, 21, was sitting with a friend at a two-flat in the 3800 block of West Monroe Street around 4:17 p.m. Thursday when four or five masked men drove past in a blue sedan and fired, apparently aiming for someone else, police said.
Barfield was hit in the head and the friend, a 21-year-old woman, was shot in the left arm. Barfield, of the 6000 block of South Winchester Avenue, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Her friend was taken to Stroger Hospital, where her condition was stabilized.
[So, where they aiming at the girlfriend? Was anyone else sitting there with them?]
A teen at the scene, whose mother did not want him identified, said he saw a woman slumped over on the porch after he heard what sounded like fireworks. "I think it was like 10 or 8 shots," he said. "They told me, 'Run!' So we ran."
The mother of the boy, Andrea Byes, said she is planning to move out of the two-flat where she lives with her children because of the violence, drug sales and loitering on the block.
"I'm not surprised something like this happened," said Byes, 40. "It was a matter of time. They're all over everywhere. . .These people are used to it. It's like an everyday normal thing, and it's sad that these children have to grow up thinking it's an everyday normal thing."
Another shooting overnight left two men dead in West Englewood. The two were hit when someone fired from inside or near a black car about 2:40 a.m. Friday in a stripmall at 63rd Street and Damen Avenue.
Corey Hudson, 34, and Robert Cotton, 35 were killed.
Cotton, of the 9600 block of South Mozart Street, was pronounced dead Sunday at 4:47 a.m. at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Hudson, of the 6500 block of South Bell Avenue, was pronounced dead Friday at 3:02 a.m. at Holy Cross Hospital, according to the medical examiner's office.
Cotton and Hudson were shot in front of a salon where children were getting their hair done overnight. Shell casings littered the sidewalk and bullets had pierced a nearby gyros restaurant.
A man who pulled up to the scene after the shooting, but before police arrived, said saw two men on the ground, one of them still moving.
A woman whose 4-year-old daughter was inside the salon became separated from her child until after police arrived. She stood outside the crime scene until a supervisor was able to walk her into the salon, where she was told she’d have to wait until detectives and evidence technicians finished their investigation.
The strip mall is covered by at least six security cameras, though it wasn't clear which ones worked.
In other shootings:
• A 21-year-old man walked into Mercy Hospital and Medical Center about 5:20 a.m. and told police he had been shot near the corner of 47th and Ada streets in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. It was not clear if police found a crime scene there. He had a thigh wound and was expected to survive.
• Around the same time about a mile away, an 18-year-old man was shot in the thigh and brought to the University of Illinois Medical Center by his relatives, according to Police News Affairs Officer Janel Sedevic. He was transferred to Stroger Hospital, where he was treated and released.
The man told police he had been shot in the 4300 block of South Wood Street around 5:20 a.m. No one was in custody.
• An 18-year-old woman was shot about 3:45 a.m. in the Little Village neighborhood. She was shot in the buttocks and was in good condition at Mount Sinai Hospital, police said. It was not clear what prompted the shooting. Police kept watch over a trail of five shell casings on Homan Avenue just south of 24th Street.
• A man was shot about 2:30 a.m. in the 3500 block of West Lake Street in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. He was treated at a hospital for a calf wound and released. Details of the shooting were not available.
• A 56-year-old man was shot in the 7400 block of South Winchester Avenue about 12:20 a.m. and took a bus to 67th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. The man told police he was shot on Winchester but it was not clear if police located a scene there.
He was taken from Cottage Grove Avenue to the University of Chicago Hospital, but police said he wasn’t able to cooperate because he was intoxicated.
• A 21-year-old man was grazed in the face and shot in the arm and stomach about 9:45 p.m. Thursday in the 600 block of North Ridgeway Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. Police said he was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition and unable to be interviewed because of his wounds.
• A person walked into Saint Bernard Hospital and Healthcare Center about 2:45 a.m. and told police he was shot in the leg the day before in the 8600 block of South Racine Avenue. Details were not available.
• A boy and a girl were shot in 4400 block of South Dearborn Street about 3:10 p.m., police said. The boy, 14, was shot in the thigh and the girl, 13, suffered a graze wound to the thigh, police said.
Both were taken to Comer Children's Hospital in good condition. Police said the boy was a documented gang member [Oh, yeah? What gang?!] and that the two were shot by a car traveling north while the two were walking south.
Check back for more information.
pnickeas@tribune.com | Twitter: @PeterNickeas
mmanchir@tribune.com | Twitter: @TribuneMM
lford@tribune.com | Twitter: @ltaford
"...and the two were shot by a car traveling north while the two were walking south."
ReplyDeleteHuh? I didn't know a car could fire a weapon.
I've previously remarked on how this same scenario repeats itself again and again. Someone is walking on the street and a car swoops by and shots ring out. No motive, no suspects, no reason, no explanation.
David In TN
It's 82 shot with 16 of them being fatal. It's a three day holiday weekend that brought out the celebrants for Independence day.
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