The monthly rallies were of no help to Betty Johnson. On Monday, neighborhood hoodlums, reportedly upset because they could not find a weapon they secretly stashed on her property, fired six .45 caliber bullets into Johnson's house.
"They shot my back bedroom up. My second grandson's room up and they shot my bedroom up. And then they shot this one up," Johnson said.
Her 21-year-old grandson, Steven Lyons, a City College student, was killed in his bedroom.
"They killed my child who was sitting there doing his homework and getting prepared for the next day, to continue to do the right thing," said Sabrina Friends-Lyons, victim's mother.
And the rallies have not paid off in the Back of the Yards neighborhood where a pregnant mother of three children was shot to death Halloween night. Mayor Daley scolded residents for not helping police find the woman's killer.
"You know who did it The police can't find it. It is up to the community," said the mayor.
But police concede many residents are afraid of their own children. And they say parents who need the message spread at anti-violence rallies are not hearing it.
"Unless the parents present it to their children, then I don't think it's going to help. The family. It has to start in the family and the household," said Commander Joe Patterson, Chicago Police Department Englewood District...
People literally are begging the gang members and gun criminals for a ceasefire, but they just keep firing away.There you go folks, it has nothing to do with people wanting to own firearms for sport, defense, or hunting. It has to do with sociopathic criminals who desire them to commit more violence, not guns making them more violent. They don't care about anyone else but themselves. Not their friends. Not their neighbors. Not their own families. All they care about is their 'cred, their bling, and their ho's and how to get more of it. For the victims and other residents, it comes down to who they are more afraid of, the gang-bangers or the CPD.
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