CHICAGO — About 15 hours after a corner in the Back of the Yards neighborhood was sprayed with gunfire Tuesday, leaving one man dead and four others wounded, Chicago police Superintendent David Brown held a news conference to update the public on the mass shooting.
Brown said a long-standing gang conflict had resulted in several shootings, including the one he was concentrating on, and said police knew how it started: A 28-year-old high-ranking gang member who had been “released recently” from federal prison and whose brother was fatally shot in April was a driver of the violence.
In addition, just a month before that shooting, the man had been stopped in the Back of the Yards with a gun and was released on a $1,000 cash bond, Brown said.
