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Chicago’s Bloody Weekend: 7 Dead, 30 Wounded in Rash of Shootings

 THEBLAZE.COM 3 Hours Ago Chicago's Bloody Weekend: 7 Dead, 30 Wounded in Rash of Shootings by  James Rollins Seven people were killed and at least 30 wounded in Chicago gun violence over Father's Day weekend,  WMAQ-TV  reports. Six of the fatal shootings and 11 others happened overnight Saturday, the station reports. (Credit: WMAQ-TV)  One of the deaths involved a 16-year-old boy who police say had gang affiliations. He was shot while riding a bike about 11:45 p.m. Saturday, police said; he tried to flee but collapsed a short distance from where he was hit. He was pronounced dead at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center at 1:37 a.m. with gunshot wounds to the left arm and back, police said, and later identified as Kevin Rivera of the 1500 block of North Keystone Avenue. No one has been arrested in connection with what police are calling a homicide. (Credit: WMAQ-TV)  In other violence, an 18-year-old man was hit in the head, chest, and shoulder in a dri...

Praying for our country

Psalms 43:1-5 KJV Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. John Hames