Extra Extra: Father Of 3-Year-Old Accidentally Shot In Head Charged
By Jon Graef in News on Aug 24, 2014 9:00PM
- 26-year-old James Jenkins was charged for felony count of unlawful use of a weapon after his 3-year-old son accidentally shot himself. [DNAlnfo Chicago]
- Rain shut down the Eisenhower for the third time this summer. [Trib]
- Walter Neely, an artist who drew pictures about the city's gun violence, fell victim to that violence himself. [Sun-Times]
- The Reader takes a look at the fallout from children dying in violent neighborhoods in Chicago and how it affects so many more people besides the kids killed. [Reader]
- A drug search lead to animal cruelty charges, when police found 13 pitbulls living in small cages covered in their own filth, some two to a cage. [Red Eye]
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