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    Monday, April 21, 2014

    Chicago police face overwhelming gun crime as 45 people shot over weekend

    Police officials point to need for stricter gun laws after city suffers bloody Easter weekend in which nine people were killed


    A senior Chicago police officer said that parts of the city are being overwhelmed by gun violence, after a weekend in which nine people were shot dead and at least 36 including six children were wounded.


    Ronald Holt, the commander of the Chicago police departments special activities division, said that the city was witnessing fratricide among young men who had come to believe that the only way to resolve a conflict is to get a gun and go shoot to kill.


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