Two More "Innies;" One More "Outie"

Once again, unpreventable indoor homicides:

• Chicago police officials said two men were shot to death in a grocery store in the East Garfield Park neighborhood this evening.
  
  Police received a call about shots fired on the 3600 block of West Ohio Street at about 6:28 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Darryl Baety. Police were looking for one suspect who fled the scene after the shooting.
  
  Police could be seen walking in and out of the M and K Grocery following the shooting. Neighbors said the two men who were killed might have been playing pool in the back of the store.

These "indoor homicides" are saving everyone a lot of work lately. Thanks goodness this brain trust is leading us into the 21st century of policing.

And then we have this flash of investigative brilliance by our fearful leader:

• If there wasn't a pool table in that corner store/game room, there's an excellent chance these upstanding citizens would be alive today.

Honest to god, J-Fled ought to come up with a "Quote a Day Calendar." We think it would be a best seller.

UPDATE: And an outside homicide in 025:

• A 24-year-old man was found shot to death Tuesday night in the Cragin neighborhood on Chicago's Northwest Side.

  Preliminary reports said officers responded to shots fired in the 4600 block of West Belmont Avenue at about 9:25 p.m., according to Police News Affairs [...]. Arriving officers found an unresponsive man laying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the head, he said.

  There was no immediate information available about the circumstances behind the shooting.

And then J-Fled spoke thusly:

• If there wasn't a sidewalk here, there's an excellent chance this man wouldn't have been lying on it, bleeding from a head wound and he would be alive today.

Words cannot describe the awe we find ourselves feeling at this moment.