Chicago: In Year of 3,000 Shootings, One Teen Faces Life Beyond the Bullet

By BearingArms.com Staff

CHICAGO (AP) — He suddenly felt as if a hot wire had torn through his chest. It hurt to breathe.

Jonathan Annicks wasn’t sure he’d been shot. It was after midnight when he’d dashed outside his family’s house to retrieve a phone charger from the car. Now, slumped over in anguish, he frantically punched his brother’s number into his phone.

“You might have to take me to the hospital,” he gasped, “Come outside, please!”

He slid from the car; his legs ended up splayed across the floorboard, the top half of his body sprawled on the pavement. The driver’s side window was shattered, the passenger door flung open. In the harsh glare of a streetlight, a baseball-sized smear of blood glistened on the center console.

Jonathan had seen the gunman for just a few seconds: a hooded stranger wearing shiny earrings who bounded out of a van, stood about six feet away and uttered something like, “What’s up, homie? Run it.”

Jonathan opened the car door and tried to flee, but too late. The shooter fired seven times at the 18-year-old, then sped away in the van down the lonely Chicago street.

Incredibly, all the shots missed, except one. Like a high-speed missile, a 9 mm …Read the Rest

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