Chiraq: 6 shot outside funeral

There's a close connection between rappers and street gangs in Chicago, which is something the mainstream media ignores.

Violence at wakes and funerals of gangbangers is not unusual, although the scale of today's bloodshed is.

From Fox 32 Chicago:

A shooting following a funeral service Monday afternoon in the Burnside neighborhood left six people wounded.

The shooting happened about 12:15 p.m. after a funeral service outside Bethlehem Star Missionary Baptist Church, 9231 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago police said.

The funeral was for a 25-year-old Chicago rapper, Vantrease R. Criss, who was shot and killed Oct. 9 in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The most seriously wounded was a male who was shot in the head and in critical condition at University of Chicago Medical Center, police said. His age was not immediately known.