13-year-old boy murdered in Chicago...shot 22 times

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In what appears to be a case of mistaken identity, on Wednesday night, a 13-year-old boy was shot at least 22 times by a masked gunman. The killer emerged from a darkened, overgrown vacant lot and pumped round after round into rising eighth-grader Robert Freeman Jr. while he was riding his bike.

The boy's father, Robert Freeman Sr., told the Chicago Sun-Times: "My son was the only one got hit. I don't understand how no one seen anything."

As usual, witnesses are not cooperating, and this murder is likely to go unsolved. Chicago is suffering a wave of gang violence which was responsible for nearly all of the city’s 458 murders last year.

The following is the number of murders which have taken place in Chicago since 1990.

1990: 851
1991: 927
1992: 943
1993: 931
1994: 929
1995: 827
1996: 789
1997: 759
1998: 704
1999: 641
2000: 628
2001: 666
2002: 647
2003: 598
2004: 448
2005: 449
2006: 467
2007: 442
2008: 510
2009: 458
2010: 253 (as of July 29)

Since January 1, 1990, an astonishing 13, 867 people have been murdered in Chicago. Even worse, many of the victims have been children as young as 10.

The following lists the number of children murdered during the corresponding school years:

2006-2007…31
2007-2008…27
2008-2009…36

Here locally, Newport News is experiencing a surge in murders this year due to gang violence as well. While the numbers are not even close to those being seen in Chicago, two 9-year-olds have been shot in the city this year, with the latest coming on Tuesday in a drive-by shooting.

Fortunately, that boy survived.

Just as in Chicago, Newport News police have been frustrated by the “no snitching” code which keeps dangerous criminals on the streets, and their neighbors who refuse to identify themâ€"prisoners in their own homes.

On Wednesday, a fed up Newport News Police Chief James Fox pleaded with the residents of the East End community where most of the shooting have taken place, to work with them.

Chief Fox said: "Give us some information about who is doing the shootings. It helps us get that little piece of the puzzle to get that person off the street."

 

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