A Chicago man has been charged with first-degree murder after witnesses say an 8-year-old girl riding a scooter was fatally shot by someone upset over noise.

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    1 year ago

    We don’t know about this particular case, but to answer your question, usually there’s plenty of signs before this sort of thing happens.

    We could use those signs to take action, like perhaps preventing or removing guns from unstable people.

    Connecting that people with social services, or law enforcement as appropriate.

    But those things are hard.

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      1 year ago

      Law enforcement is all too happy to systematically ignore them when you tell them about these signs.