Nearly eight people are shot each day in Chicago, and data analysis shows that in the last five years more than 100 of them have been kids and teens within one-tenth of a mile of a school.
About 2,500 times each year, Chicago law enforcement has to track and trace the guns used to shoot people.
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From the deadly Senn High School shooting this week, to the lunchtime attack on Wabash Avenue last week, CPD detectives are being faced with new questions about whether shooters carried newfangled firepower: if they had homemade guns, or were armed with illegally converted automatic weapons.
Shootings at or near schools have now surpassed the 100 mark during the past five years according to Chicago police statistics analyzed by the ABC7 Data Team.
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That same analysis found over the past five years, 106 children and teens have been shot within a tenth of a mile of Chicago schools during school days between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m.