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Shooting Outside Chicago Church Gang Related: 6 Shot, 5 Critical

by Amy Judd | August 1, 2009 at 12:46 pm

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A drive-by shooting outside the Gospel Truth Life Church at 5301 West Madison this afternoon has left six people with injuries, five of them critical.

A funeral for Cornelius Robinson, 28, was taking place inside the church and he was a self-admitted gang member. He died on July 26th from heart problems and obesity.

At some point during his funeral, according to police, a male shooter apparently approached the storefront church on foot, firing a gun multiple times into the crowd outside the church.

“We were clapping our hands and praising the Lord when the shots started and we hit the floor,” said a woman who had been inside the church attending the funeral.

“It’s obvious somebody was out for revenge,” said the woman, who did not want to give her name.

Chicago police officer Kevin Kilmer siad:

the suspected gunman approached an "intended target" in a group of mourners and shot multiple times.

The police have no one in custody at this time.

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Uwe Paschen

at 18:34 on August 1st, 2009

A lot of shootings today around the globe, so it seems.

This acts of violence in North America are among the worth true out the Globe.

Buck Biffley (not verified)

at 23:14 on August 1st, 2009

These rabid, savage, primitive negroes just can't seem to become civilized according to Western standards of conduct. They perpetually "chimp out" and undertake these random, wild attacks as if millions of crazed gorillas were given whiskey and crack and let loose among the population, with access to firearms.

Shoulda picked our own cotton. Where you have unfettered Africans, there you have Africa.

Rabid Savage (not verified)

at 07:42 on August 3rd, 2009

Buck.. Europeans have been too damn lazy to do any "real work" on their own which is why they've historically exploited and enslaved those weaker than themselves, including each other. I wouldn't really be concerned about the primitive negros until they start imulating "mass murderers", which white folks seem to have a monoply on. One would expect an ignorant cracker such as yourself to be happy with the Negros killing themselves..both here and in Africa. Perhaps white folk totally screwing up the world in everything from finances to global warming and profit making wars, isn't enough to keep you occupied. I'm so happy that your Pres. Obama will fix everything you white folks have screwed up for so very long!

Buck Biffley (not verified)

at 07:41 on August 5th, 2009

There are more(and more depraved) serial killers among the black segment of the American population, per capita percentage-wise, than white.

Every nationality and ethnicity in history has practiced some form of slavery and oppression of another group--such activity still continues by black Africans today, in Africa--yet it is white Western civilization that put an end to it in this hemisphere, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of white men's lives.

White men have done more, and died/been injured by the millions, to liberate millions of the oppressed from tyrants all over the world, than any other group, period.

Black Muslims throughout history have been the very worst offenders, enslaving exponentially far more and under much worse conditions and for much more nefarious purposes than in the trans-Atlantic trade. Muslims today are engaged in far worse practices than anything white Westerners have EVER done.

Please acquaint yourself with at least a nominal level of historical acumen before spouting off again.