Violence erupts in Humboldt Park
This morning, a group of men wearing ski masks apparently broke into a Humboldt Park apartment and shot a 6-year-old boy in the head. They critically wounded the boy, but did not kill him.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the men also stabbed and shot one male resident and pistol-whipped another. Apparently, the ski-masked men retained some shred of humanity, and spared the life of the 1-year-old living in the house before driving away in their gold car. No deaths have been reported yet.
According to a representative from the Chicago Police Department’s news affairs bureau, there have been 20 homicides in the city this year. That’s 20 homicides in 18 days. And that’s not including atrocities like this, where murderers fail.