Still Trying for 800

Including a four-bagger on the far south side:

• At least 22 people have been shot — eight of them fatally — across the city since Friday afternoon, according to Chicago Police.
  
  Most recently, at least five people were shot and four of them were killed Saturday afternoon in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
  
  The shooting happened at 12:39 p.m. in the 100 block of West 105th Street, according to Chicago Police. Four of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene while the fifth was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, Chicago Fire Department officials said. Additionally, a child was transported from the scene to Roseland Community Hospital, although it was not immediately clear whether the child had been shot. Further details, including the victims’ ages and genders, were not immediately available.

To hear the media tell it, no one in the neighborhood heard a thing until someone noticed two dead people on the lawn and police discovered two more dead in the house. HeyJackass.com puts the total at 769 with two weeks to go.

This doubles the totals from the last two years, so Special Ed's reign of blood continues to expand. Not that Special Ed was in town to see it - seems almost ten members of the command staff spent the latter part of the week in New York City attempting to learn advanced policing techniques.