Chicago police were faced with a trio of shootings with multiple victims Tuesday — with 13 people shot in all.
Candles sit on the ground on May 11, 2022, at the scene where five people were shot, one fatally, the previous day on the 4800 block of South Ada Street in the Back the Yards neighborhood.
Craig Chico with the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council said Tuesday’s shooting felt like a “gut punch.” “This is a really entrenched gang situation we’ve got. The infrastructure is generational,” he said. “So that’s part of the difficulty in dismantling it.” Brown said the shooting occurred when gang members in a car saw rivals on the block and they immediately began exchanging gunfire. Police later recovered two rifles from the scene.Police said the shooting can be linked to the April 19 murder of a man who was the brother of a high-ranking member of one of the gangs involved, Brown said. Since that killing, violence has been escalating between the two gangs.
To be sure, Brown’s decision to name a potential target in a gang conflict is unusual. Some neighborhood sources interviewed by the Tribune immediately called the decision troubling and suggested the identification could put a target on the back of the man Brown named.In a phone interview, Ald. Jeanette Taylor, 20th, whose ward covers Back of the Yards, said her primary goal in the aftermath of crime and violence is to listen to and support the people who need help.
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