{"id":30642,"date":"2015-02-27T19:49:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T00:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=30642"},"modified":"2015-08-10T04:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T08:07:44","slug":"chicago-60-year-old-shot-in-the-head-while-shoveling-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/chicago-60-year-old-shot-in-the-head-while-shoveling-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"CHICAGO: 60-Year-Old Shot In The Head While Shoveling Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"
CHICAGO, Illinois — Bernard Monroe, 60, was found in front of his neighbor’s home Wednesday evening with a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
A family member told the Associated Press that Bernard would often shovel the entire block near his home on the city’s South Side and did odd jobs for extra money.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made and the tragic incident appears to be a senseless act.<\/p>\n
Chicago has become notorious for gun violence.\u00a0Murders in the city first peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city’s population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer<\/i> than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.<\/p>\n
Following 1992, the murder count slowly decreased to 641 out of 10,000 in 1999. In 2002, Chicago had fewer murders but a significantly higher murder rate than New York or Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CHICAGO, Illinois — Bernard Monroe, 60, was found in front of his neighbor’s home Wednesday evening with a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A family member told the Associated Press that Bernard would often shovel the entire block near his home on the city’s South Side and did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":30156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n