New Years shooting in IL

[Unladen Swallow]

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/kankakee-mass-shooting-new-years-day-party/

[Clouds Passing]

1. Victims of violence

💚💚💚💚💚

[Unladen Swallow]

3. 2025 is off to a classy start

Less than 48 hours in! What a nightmare.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Information from the linked article:

KANKAKEE, Ill. (CBS) -- Two brothers were killed and five other people were wounded in a mass shooting at a New Year's Day house party early Wednesday in Kankakee.

Police said around 4:05 a.m., officers responded to reports of gunfire at 1845 Pierson Parkway, and when they arrived, they found several people running out of a New Year's party.

Four gunshot victims were found at the scene, and were taken to local hospitals. Police said three other gunshot victims took themselves to local hospitals.

Two men were later pronounced dead at the hospital – 22-year-old Quaysean T. Isom, of Kankakee, and 20-year-old Trevontae Ellis, of Pembroke Township, according to the Kankakee County Coroner's office.

Kankakee Police Chief Christopher Kidwell said one of the surviving victims was in critical condition. The other four people's injuries were not life-threatening. The victims range in age from 20 to 33.

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[usonian]

4. Guns versus young people.

From NEJM:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761

[Unladen Swallow]

5. How many of those gun deaths

are suicides?

[usonian]

6. That would take more lookup. NT

[Unladen Swallow]

9. Worth knowing, methinks

[usonian]

10. Please research it.

i was flat out yesterday and am driving a lot today.

[GreenWave]

7. That town is mentioned in "City of New Orleans"

Connection?

[John1956PA]

8. "The train pulls out from Kankakee . . ."

Arlo Guthrie's recording of this Steve Goodman song is one of my all-time favorites. Shortly after I heard it in the autumn of 1972, I rushed to the store to buy the 45 rpm, which I still have.