My eye caught a headline “Another murder near Obama’s home”.
The gist of the story:
A man was killed and another was wounded in a shooting early Tuesday in Hyde Park,
It’s the second shooting to happen near President Barack Obama’s home in neighboring Kenwood in about a week.
Last week 15-year-old Cornelius German was gunned down in the 5000 block of South Evans, less than a mile away from Obama’s house.
That got me wondering: how many murders have there been in Chicago since the Newton massacre.
Apparently, enough other folks ask the same question, so Slate has developed an infographic that provides a tally of murders by city since Sandy Hook.
The answer: 96 Murders in Chicago since Newtown.
Think about that for a second … then continue reading.
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