CHICAGO - Chicago, one of America's cities with toughest gun control laws, hit the 500 mark of shootings in 2012 Thursday night when a 40-year-old man was shot and killed on the West Side. The next highest number of shootings in Chicago was in 2008, when the number for the year reached 512.
As CBS 7 reports, "Nathaniel Jackson, of the 4700 block of West Armitage Avenue, had the dubious distinction of becoming the city’s 500th homicide victim this year, when he was shot in the head outside a convenience store in the 4900 block of West Augusta Boulevard at about 9 p.m. Thursday. He was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where he died a few hours later."
