Category: True Crime
42 Dead In Chicago In One Weekend Including An 81 Year Old Grandmother
One of the first weekends with nice weather in months brought violence with it as the toll of wounded in Chicago climbed to over 40 people.
Among the 42 people wounded was an 81-year-old grandmother who was at a gathering to mourn the death of her daughter. Surprisingly, only one death figured in among the high number of shootings over this bloody weekend.
The long list of shootings began with a Friday that saw 11 shootings, most in the Englewood and Gresham Districts.
Friday also brought the serious wounding of the 81-year-old woman. Around 5 PM, Iola and Sylvester Burress were standing on a porch in their Auburn Gresham neighborhood when a white SUV drove by with someone inside firing from the sunroof. 81-year-old Iola was struck four times, once in the wrist, twice in the stomach, and in her arm. The elderly woman is listed in critical condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
Her great-grandson, Sylvester, was wounded in the hip during the same incident.
“This is what Chicago looks forward to. At a moment when that support was needed, we had that taken away, we had family out in the line of fire,” Ronnie Mosely said of the shooting of his grandmother.
“I’m burying my sister and then I’ve got to look at my mother and son being shot,” added Mary Burress, Ronnie Mosely’s aunt.
By Midnight into Saturday morning the city suffered its first fatal shooting of the weekend with a 24-year-old man shot on the near West Side. He was found unresponsive on a sidewalk having been shot in the chest and shoulder.
Saturday continued its bloody toll with a staggering 20 shootings in neighborhoods such as Garfield Park, Humbolt Park, and Roseland.
Sunday dawned with a few less shootings, but still saw 12 incidents by 9PM that evening.
This weekend’s violence brings the year’s total shootings to 833 shootings, with 120 deaths by gunfire, and a total of 141 homicides in the city.
Because of the high death and violence toll in the Windy City, filmmaker Spike Lee came to Chicago only last week to hold a press conference for his upcoming movie to be titled Chiraq–a take on the fact that Chicago is more dangerous than Iraq. Lee came to Chicago to defend his film title against city officials who claim it will hurt the city.
“We have to stop the madness. This is insane. This is nothing to do about Chicago losing tourism. This is not about Chicago losing business,” Lee said at his press conference.
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Florida Man Who Shot At George Zimmerman Arrested For Aggravated Assault
Matthew Apperson, the hood hero who admittingly shot at child predator killer George Zimmerman was arrested in Florida on yesterday. He has since been released on $35K bail.
Apperson said that he was in fear for his life and shot at Zimmerman’s pickup truck in self defense. The two have reportedly had ongoing beef so apparently when Apperson saw Zimmerman –he popped a cap at him.
Witnesses at the scene said that Apperson can be overheard after the shooting saying, “I hope I got him this time”.
Better luck next time.
Legal analysts are predicting that Apperson may be able to use the “Stand Your Ground” law as his defense. Ironically, the “Stand Your Ground” defense is the same defense George Zimmerman used to gain an acquittal for the killing of black teenager, Trayvon Martin.
There may be few cases in the history of criminology where the “suspect” is actually the hailed as the good guy and the “victim” — the bad guy. This might be one of those cases.
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Via Huffington Post:
The man who shot at George Zimmerman during a confrontation along a busy central Florida road has been ordered by a judge to turn in his weapons and avoid contact with Zimmerman.
Matthew Apperson made his first appearance before a judge Saturday. The Orlando Sentinel reports he was released on $35,000 bond after being charged Friday with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and firing a missile into an occupied conveyance.
Zimmerman’s attorney said the former neighborhood watch volunteer was driving to a doctor’s appointment Monday when Apperson intentionally fired his gun into Zimmerman’s truck without provocation.
The passenger window of Zimmerman’s pickup had a bullet hole in it, and Zimmerman suffered minor injuries from flying glass and debris.
Zimmerman and Apperson were involved in a road-rage episode last September.
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