Weekend Violence Update

The WBBM report looks a little thin:

• Two people were shot Saturday night in the West Side's Lawndale neighborhood.
• A man was fatally shot in the chest while attempting to sell a handgun early Saturday inside a Far South Side apartment.
• A man was hospitalized Saturday morning after being shot in the West Side’s Garfield Park neighborhood.
• Mose Blumenberg, 24, was fatally shot in the back Friday night in the South Side’s Marquette Park neighborhood.
• A teen was shot in the head in what may have been a drive-by shooting early Saturday in the Far South Side Roseland neighborhood.

That leaves out quite a few acts of violence pointed out in various comment sections here. The double shooting in 017 (one dead so far), the double vehicular homicide in 013 (2 other in critical), the burning body case.

We guess if it disappears off the front pages after a single news cycle, the image of a slight gang problem being out of control isn't so pronounced.