Chicago, nicknamed Chiraq for its high rate of violence, led the nation in homicides in 2014.

“I’m just a nappy head n-gga, but the thoughts count.”
– DaWeirdo

“It seem like it ain’t no hope for my city nomo…How we steady killing our own f-cking ppl? Who gone raise our children to be future leaders if you not?”
– Dreezy

Venzel, a freshman at Dunbar Vocational High School, was well liked by many and known for his comedic nature and bopping skills.

Venzel Richardson is the latest teen lost to gun violence in Chicago.

“I been through it all, I done seen a lot before/Got damn man, why my homie had to go/I can’t even hang with my homie no more/For my dead guys, my niggas go out and blow.”
– Lil Jay, “Why”

“RIP TOOKA DALE JOJO TYQUAN DOC MODEL LILJEFFERSONINSANE MARCUS OJ WALE TUTU ZAEL DIRTY RELL EJ JAJA BOSS TRELL LIL 4 WE GO CRAZY FOR YALL”
– Lil Jay

“I don’t know how to begin planning a funeral for my son. I don’t know what to do. It just feel like there’s a weight sitting right here on my chest. My chest just hurt. Can’t nothing in the world prepare you for that. When I woke up yesterday morning, I didn’t think when I went to bed last night that my son wasn’t going to be here no more.”
– L’A Capone’s mom Dedra Morris

The 300 block community in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side is mourning the loss of a close associate who succumbed to injuries sustained during a Labor Day shooting.