Bloody start to year as Chicago homicides hit 50, worst January since at least 2000

The Chicago Tribune reports:

Two hours into 2016, DeAndre Holiday, a 24-year-old father of three, became another sad statistic of Chicago's runaway violence, fatally shot in the chest as he left a New Year's Eve party in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side.

In the weeks since, the tally of those killed has hit 50, making January the deadliest start to a year in Chicago in at least 16 years.

As many people died in January as in many summer months, the usual peak season for violence.

Holiday's mother, Gwendolyn, is trying to persuade her two other children — and possibly her grandchildren — to move with her to her native Atlanta.

Barack Obama's Chicago is more violent than the peak of the Capone era or the Old West !