Obama's sons party while he's in town. Shoot 16, kill one - no arrests.

[Eric Holder Gun Giveaway]

Just an hour before 100 Chicago Police officers gathered
Saturday to go on patrol overnight for a potentially violent
shift across the city, a 16-year-old girl lay in a gangway,
three bullets in her chest.

The girl, according to a witness, and two other male teens were
sitting on the porch of a vacant house in the 2000 block of West
70th Place “when a boy in a gray hoody ran out from the gang way
and just start shooting.”

The witness, who asked not to be named, said he “ran up to the
porch. I seen this big old hole in her side and I just start
praying for her. She kept saying ‘It burns. It burns’ and then
she passed out. I couldn’t look any longer.”

The girl was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ
Medical Center in Oak Lawn. A 21-year-old man was also
hospitalized in stabile condition, police said.

“I’m sick of this,” the witness said. “They need to lock all
their asses up.”

That bitter assessment of city violence was given not far from
where the officers met with Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy,
who spoke to them in a parking lot where the 7th district
station had been located, 6120 S. Racine, in a so-called roll
call.

In the wake of two violent weekends, the city called in the
extra cops, including many on overtime, to work in hotspots
citywide.

McCarthy urged them to be aggressive — but also interactive.

“Getting out of the car is what makes the difference, and that’s
what I expect you all to be doing tonight,” McCarthy said.

Paying overtime wages for more police on the street is part of a
new strategy announced this week by McCarthy and Mayor Rahm
Emanuel.

The city’s murder rate is up about 35 percent compared to the
same time last year. There were nine homicides last weekend and
about 50 shootings.

“Compared to the previous two weekends, we’re doing okay,”
McCarthy said.

As of late Saturday, there had been one person murder and 14
wounded.

Antonio Buck, 32, of the 5400 block of South Aberdeen, was
killed — also not far from the roll call — in the 5200 block of
South Honore, at 1:50 a.m., officials said.

The attack also left a 29-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to
the shoulder, police said.

Friends took Buck to Holy Cross Hospital, where he died from a
gunshot wound to the head, police said. Paramedics took the
woman to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was initially in
“guarded” condition.

In the other shootings, the most seriously hurt was a 26-year-
old man found shot on the street in the 1400 block of South
Keller at 1:15 a.m. Saturday when police responded to a
disturbance at a large party, police said. He was in critical
condition at Mount Sinai with gunshot wounds to the chest and
back.

The youngest victim was a 15-year-old boy who was shot in the
1000 block of North Long at 11 p.m. Friday when someone opened
fire at a vehicle he was riding in, police said. The driver took
him to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was in “stable” condition
with a gunshot wound to the lower back.

At the roll call, officials called attention to one shooting
early Friday. An off-duty 38-year-old officer, a 10-year police
veteran, was on the rear porch of a home in the 9700 block of
South Genoa when he heard gunshots and felt pain in both legs,
according to a police statement. Although his injuries weren’t
life-threatening, it angered deputy chief of patrol Joe
Patterson.

“We should take it personal when one of our guys gets shot,”
Patterson told his co-workers before they went off into the
night.

No one was in custody for any of the shootings as of late
Saturday.

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