Mass-to-back
Posted on September 29, 2015
The FBI defines a mass shooting as an event where four or more people are killed and/or wounded within the same incident. In just five hours last night, Chicago witness two such events that left five dead and five others injured:
“The first of those shootings occurred Monday evening when a family on their way back from an outing was gunned down in the Back of the Yards, leaving a pregnant mother and grandmother dead and three others — including an 11-month-old boy — wounded, police said.
The second multiple shooting occurred about five hours later when two men and the mother of a 4-year-old were killed and two other people were wounded near a playground in the Fuller Park neighborhood on the South Side, according to police. A sister said the woman was killed coming to the aid of a relative.”
If the same situation had played out just about anywhere else, no doubt the national media would be rubbing one out like they haven’t done so in years. However, since the location and victims (and likely shooters too) aren’t ideal, these incidents won’t make many headlines beyond the local papers.