A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed in a dispute over a bicycle Saturday afternoon on the South Side, authorities said, and another man was killed in West Humboldt Park late Saturday night.
Fifteen others were shot and survived Saturday night and Sunday morning, police said.
Over a bicycle. That's just great.
And the spate of shootings led to a march being held. You know it's a good weekend when there's a march:
- After a violent weekend in which three people were gunned down, the anti-violence group CeaseFire held a rally on the West Side Sunday.
The rally was planned to kick off a week of events called CeaseFire Week but came on the heels of another violent weekend that also saw 21 others wounded by gunfire.
Evelyn Holmes from Channel 7 had the above linked piece on the news Sunday. The gist of the piece was the unholy toll being reaped on the youth of the west and south sides. And while she was doing her report live from the scene, this played out in the background:
They're certainly going to be either (A) the subject of one of Evelyn's pieces in the next 5 years or (B) raising the next generation of subjects within the next 20 years. An endless circle.