Extra Extra: Three Dead, Eight Wounded In Gun Violence Tuesday
Three people were killed and eight were wounded in gun violence across the city on Tuesday. A teenage girl was killed and a boy was wounded in the Kenwood neighborhood around 2:30 p.m. near King College Prep High School. A 20-year-old man was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head around 7:55 a.m. on the East Side. Read more about the third fatality below. [CBS]
Yesterday we wrote about the heartbreaking story of a mother who has lost all four of her children to gun violence. Well, around noon today, a mother lost her second son to a shooting in the Grand Crossing neighborhood when Devin Common, 27, was shot and killed. Last summer her son Antonio Common, 23, was shot in an alley near the corner store where Devin was killed. “Antonio had told me, ‘I’m going to the store, I will be right back, momma,” said Kimberly Common, who has two other children. “Devin said the same thing.” [Sun-Times]
Security at Saturday's basketball game between Simeon Academy and Whitney Young Magnet High School was so tight that even police superintendent Garry McCarthy was there. [NY Times]
A Humboldt Park woman has been charged with DUI, accused of fatally striking two people who were changing a tire, then driving off. [Sun-Times]
The Chicago Teachers Union accuses Chicago Public Schools of manufacturing all of their financial problems. [Sun-Times]
Unsurprising: More questionable spending practices at Metra. [Daily Herald]
A dog in South Elgin caused a house to go up in flames when it jumped up to try and get a pizza box off of the stove. It's sort of like Mrs. O'Leary's cow and the lantern, except this one is a true story. [CBS]