The wounded include 3-year-old Deonta "Tay-man" Howard, and two teens, among 13 people shot in an apparent gang-related attack in Chicago's South Side Cornell Square Park.
Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said an assault-style rifle with a high-capacity magazine was used in the shootings.
"They almost shot his whole face off,' McCarthy said, noting it was a "miracle" that no one had died in the attacks. Others in the violence-plagued city weren't so lucky. At least 10 others were shot in other incidents late Thursday and early Friday. Three were murdered, including Johnny Tinsey, 36, Rubin Austin, 25, and an unidentified 29-year-old woman.
Howard's grandmother, Semehca Nunn, said his condition had stabilized Friday after he underwent surgery. The bullet entered the boy's ear and exited through his mouth. Deonta's uncle was shot to death just two weeks ago.
None of the other victims shot in the park suffered life threatening injuries, police said. A witness to the Cornell Square Park shootings, Julian Harris, told the Chicago Sun-Times that dreadlocked men fired at him from a gray sedan before firing at others.
"They hit the light pole next to me, but I ducked down and ran into the house," said Harris,22, Howard's uncle. "They've been coming round here looking for people to shoot every night, just gang-banging stuff. It's what they do."
Police say the park shootings stem from an on-going dispute between the Gangster Disciples and the Black P Stone Nation gang. Chicago Alderman Willie Cochran told the Chicago Sun-Times that police have talked to several people but had made no arrests.
GANGSTER
DISCIPLES
the Black
P Stone Nation gang
"Senseless
and brazen acts of violence have no place in Chicago and betray all
that we stand for," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Friday. "The
perpetrators of this crime will be brought to justice and prosecuted
to the full extent of the law. I encourage everyone in the community
to step forward with any information and everyone in Chicago to
continue their individual efforts to build stronger communities where
violence has no place."
Three weeks ago
an outbreak of violence during the Labor Day weekend left eight
people dead and 20 injured.
The Chicago
police department responded by paying overtime to add patrols to some
neighborhoods, including the Back of the Yards, where Thursday's
shooting took place.
Crime
statistics released
this week by the FBI showed that Chicago, with
500 murders in 2012, replaced New York, with 419, as the murder
capital of the U.S. Year-to-date, Chicago murders are actually down
22% from 2012. Police say there have been 305 killings, vs. 389 at
this point in 2012.
Thy
sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a
wild bull in
a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord,
the rebuke of thy God.
Isaiah 59:2
But
your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your
sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
:3 For
your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
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