Another Shooting (And Another!)

Move along! Nothing to see here. Crime is down. All is well!:

• A man was hospitalized in critical condition after he was shot by police in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, officials said.

  The shooting occurred on the 3200 block of West Ohio Avenue at about about 8:10 p.m., according to Chicago Police News Affairs [...].

  The shooting victim, who was described as an adult, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, in critical condition...

Um, media dumbasses? The "shooting victim" is the officer involved. The wounded shithead is the offender in a Unlawful Use of a Weapon crime. And the victim was actually "touring the DOC" or "gang conflict area" or whatever they're calling it nowadays when he confronted the armed subject. Good to see some bosses actually base their logs in reality.

Add this one to Frank Main's totals.

UPDATE: 011 kicking it into high gear tonight:

• Chicago police on late Monday shot and wounded a 13-year-old boy on the city's West Side, the second police-involved shooting of the night.

  No officers were injured in the roughly 11 p.m. shooting in the 1000 block of North Kedvale Avenue in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood, authorities said.

  A source said the wounded person was 13, but a spokesman with the Chicago Fire Department would only confirm that he was a teenager.

Watch yourselves out there.

UPDATE II: Amazingly, this is the photograph provided to the media for the story of the 13-year-old carrying what may turn out to be a BB gun:

Thanks to the family for making the police case for us. We don't even have to try on this one.

UPDATE III: The media cover up begins. TV stations are cropping the photo and the news sites have removed it entirely. Cowards one and all.