Add 2 Dead and 10 Wounded

The hits just keep on coming - long into Sunday night and even this morning:

• Two people was killed and 10 others wounded, at least two critically, in five separate shootings on the South Side, police said this morning.

  Five of the victims were wounded at a party near 50th Place and Halsted Street in the Back of the Yard neighborhood at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, police said, citing early reports.

As a side note, anyone notice that phrase?

• "...citing early reports."

It appeared in another form in yesterday's Tribune:

• Police officials on Sunday were still compiling a list of confirmed shootings and victims....

If you've been on the scene of a shooting recently, and judging by the numbers a lot of us have been, you know that CPIC is banging for paper cars to call them ASAP all the time. They call before the victims even get to the hospital on a few shootings. The need the numbers so they can feed them into the giant CompStat Computer and then predict where the retaliation will occur.

But our inner conspiracy theorist notices that they're still keeping the press in the dark as long as possible and twisting the statistics so every media outlet has a different set of numbers.