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Canaryville Shooting Leaves Man Hit Twice in Stomach: 'Too Much Violence'

By Ed Komenda | April 21, 2016 6:01am
 A shooting that left a man with two bullet wounds in his stomach at a Canaryville stoplight this month involved a gang
A shooting that left a man with two bullet wounds in his stomach at a Canaryville stoplight this month involved a gang "not from this community" — but it's now affecting the community, Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson (11th) said Wednesday night.
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CANARYVILLE — A shooting that left a man with two bullet wounds in his stomach at a Canaryville stoplight this month involved a gang "not from this community" — but it's now affecting the community, Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson (11th) said Wednesday night.

“The gang that did the shooting was not from this community,” Thompson said. “Unfortunately, it happened in this community, and now our community is affected by it.”

The first-term alderman said the recent rash of violent crimes in the city should motivate the community to get more engaged.

“This could be a rallying for the city to come together and fight this and move forward,” Thompson said.

Chicago Police shared details Wednesday on the April 12 Canaryville shooting, which happened near 41st and Halsted streets.

The 9:30 p.m. shooting in the 4100 block of South Halsted targeted a 23-year-old man stopped at a stop light. Someone in a red SUV pulled up and starting shooting at him, police said at the neighborhood’s monthly CAPS meeting Wednesday.

The victim — a Brighton Park resident and member of the Latin Kings, according to police — took two bullets in his stomach.

He sped away and crashed into a fence. Emergency crews showed up a short time later and took him to Stroger Hospital, where he was treated.

The victim told police the gang members who shot him were not from the neighborhood.

“I don’t know if they followed him or they knew where he was coming from or going to,” an officer said. “They just caught up to him.”

The shooting worried some neighborhood folks.

“Too much violence,” said Ernest Delaney, 73. “We have to change the laws on guns.”

“There are too many guns on the street,” said John Ryan, who has lived in Canaryville since 1953. “When I was a kid, there were a lot of rivalries, but we didn’t have guns.”

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