More Shot; More Dead

Every killing marks another increase from last year's totals. This year we're up over 30 so far, probably nearing forty with six days left in March:

• A 22-year-old man was fatally shot in a Far South Side liquor store this evening, police said, and a 46-year-old man was killed about 45 minutes later.

  The younger man was shot to death while standing in the store near 133rd Street and Indiana Avenue about 8:45 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs [...].

  Someone outside fired into the store, hitting the man, police said. The man was shot in the chest...

  Area South detectives were investigating.

  About 9:30 p.m., the 46-year-old man was shot in the chest and right bicep and found in an alley by responding officers, according to police.

  Officers found him on the 1800 block of West 63rd Street in the West Englewood neighborhood and he was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

That's another two dead with another two shot. Nowhere near the previous week's total, but the temperature is nowhere near what it was last week.

Good thing they aren't counting vehicular homicides in the totals - we had about three of those this past week, none of which would have been prevented by speed cameras (we're just saying.)