TUESDAY February 22, 2022: 'DEADLY WEAPON' One Gun : 27 Shootings by Chicago Tribune investigative reporter Jeremy Gorner and Pulitzer Prize winning photographer E. Jason Wambsgans: Guns that end up on Chicago's streets often come from Indiana and Wisconsin. In 2019, of more than 11,000 guns confiscated by Illinois authorities, 460 were traced back to Wisconsin. One stolen handgun, a 9 mm Glock 17, was the focus of a Tribune investigation after it was linked to 27 shootings, including two homicides, making it one of the most active guns seen by Chicago police in recent memory. In little over a month it was on the streets of Chicago, where it would be fired over and over and over. An extended magazine, which increases firepower, was attached. The Chicago Tribune examined hundreds of documents obtained through open-records requests to outline and understand the Glock's path to and throughout Chicago, conducting numerous interviews to learn how the weapon moved about the city and hearing from those whose lives were forever altered by its use. Welcome to: 'DEADLY WEAPON' One Gun : 27 Shootings
© zReportage.com Story of the Week #827: TUESDAY February 22, 2022: 'DEADLY WEAPON' One Gun : 27 Shootings by Chicago Tribune investigative reporter Jeremy Gorner and Pulitzer Prize winning photographer E. Jason Wambsgans: Guns that end up on Chicago's streets often come from Indiana and Wisconsin. In 2019, of more than 11,000 guns confiscated by Illinois authorities, 460 were traced back to Wisconsin. One stolen handgun, a 9 mm Glock 17, was the focus of a Tribune investigation after it was linked to 27 shootings, including two homicides, making it one of the most active guns seen by Chicago police in recent memory. In little over a month it was on the streets of Chicago, where it would be fired over and over and over. An extended magazine, which increases firepower, was attached. The Chicago Tribune examined hundreds of documents obtained through open-records requests to outline and understand the Glock's path to and throughout Chicago, conducting numerous interviews to learn how the weapon moved about the city and hearing from those whose lives were forever altered by its use. Welcome to: 'DEADLY WEAPON' One Gun : 27 Shootings

In an image from body-worn camera video, a Chicago police officer holds a Glock 17 9mm semi-automatic handgun and extended magazine recovered after the arrest of Cory Stone in the 4300 block of West Gladys Avenue on Chicago's West Side in 2017. The pistol was stolen from a gun shop in Superior, Wisconsin, a year and a half earlier. After Chicago police confiscated the gun, police used ballistics testing to determine that it was likely used in 27 shootings after being stolen.
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Superior Shooters Supply where the Glock 17, 9mm handgun was stolen on New Year's Day 2016. After the break-in, the owner Patricia Kukull said she beefed up the durability of the door the burglar entered and replaced the glass case he smashed.
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Superior Shooters Supply owner PATRICIA KUKULL in her store where the Glock 17, 9mm handgun was stolen on New Year's Day 2016. Guns are part of the culture in northern Wisconsin, and Kukull's store has operated in Superior since 1979. 'I take it really personally, and I don't know anybody who wouldn't take it personally,' she said of her guns being stolen and eventually used in crimes.
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A showcase at Superior Shooters Supply in Wisconsin where the Glock 17, 9mm handgun was stolen on New Year's Day 2016. Officials have linked the weapon to 27 shootings in Chicago.
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GERALD BRYANT runs summer basketball leagues for the past 12 years in the North Lawndale neighborhood. Bryant said he is not angry with the young men down at that end. Hardly. He knows they were born into their circumstances. The solutions are legitimate economic opportunities to replace the hustle on the corner, Bryant said. Otherwise, the guns will keep getting passed crew to crew and getting used over and over, as needed, with retaliations cycling from one shooting to the next.
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A vehicle with bullet holes at the scene of a shooting on the Indiana Tollway bridge that killed Elliot Brown.The cost of all it, from treating physical injuries to the arrest, prosecution and detention of gun offenders, is shared by all Chicagoans.
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CORY STONE was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for carrying the Glock 17. 'My intention,' he explained. 'Was to protect my family.' Stone said he got the gun off the street. And that investigators interviewed him about the Glock, pressing him for details on the numerous shootings connected to it. He said he doesn't know the person he got the gun from. Nor did he know anything about the gun's history on the street.
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Superior, Wisconsin, seen from Duluth, Minnesota, across the St. Louis River. With a population of about 27,000, Superior shares Wisconsin's northern border with Duluth, Minnesota, two cities aptly referred to as the ''Twin Ports'' situated along Lake Superior.
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ANDRE WILLIAMS was shot at least four times in November 2016 by someone with the Glock 17 and says he is likely unable to have children due to his injuries.
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The site of a shooting at 31st and State streets from February 2016. The shooting was the first sign of the Glock's use in Chicago, though its whereabouts on the street would remain a mystery.
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The area in the 4300 block of West 15th Street, near Franklin Park, in the North Lawndale neighborhood, which was the site of a fatal shooting on April 10, 2017. All told, two dozen people were shot during one guns use in a handful of Chicago neighborhoods, two of them killed.
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The 1800 block of South Kildare Avenue in the North Lawndale neighborhood where the Glock was fired in several instances from November 2016 to May 2017.
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DAMIEN MORRIS, senior director of violence prevention for Breakthrough Urban Ministries, photographed near a shooting scene from December 2016, behind the 300 block of North St. Louis Avenue. Morris, called it ''mind-boggling'' that the Glock was used so frequently and could cause so much destruction. But as someone who has long worked in Chicago to reduce violence, Morris understands why a gun like that would remain in circulation in the underground street world for so long.
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The alley behind the 300 block of North St. Louis Avenue where shell casings were found after a man was wounded in a shooting invoking the Glock on December 6, 2016.
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JILL WHERLEY in her beauty salon in Hermantown, Minnesota. Wherley, a mother who was searching for her daughter, who was missing and had a history of drug use. Five years after the break-in at Kukull's shop, both gun violence in Chicago and opioid addiction in Superior and Duluth continue to rage.
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A pop-up event hosted by a community organization that gathers neighbors together to counter violence in the 300 block of North St. Louis Avenue. A man was shot after someone opened fire with the Glock on December of 2016.
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CORNIKI BORNDS at a scholarship award ceremony that she created in honor of her 19-year-old son Fontaine 'B.J.' Sanders, who was killed in a shooting involving the Glock in April 2017. Bornds has worked through her grief with the support of other mothers who have lost their sons and by finding ways to help others in her community who face the same type of gun violence.
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The Superior Inn in Superior, Wisconsin, where police once investigated a suspected drug dealer from Chicago. 'Bad guys in Chicago, they might be smaller fish in Chicago, but they're a big fish when they come here,' said Thomas Champaigne, captain of investigations for the Superior Police Department.
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JACKIE GREEN's nephew Jonathan Green was shot and killed in a 2017 shooting in which the Glock was used. ''It still seems like that day that he got killed,'' Green said. ''It's like the pain really never leaves.''
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A drawing by Jackie Green of her nephew Jonathan Green, who was shot and killed in a shooting in which the Glock was used.
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