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Chicago Needs Prayer! Father Gunned Down on Steps of Church with Children by His Side

Meg Storm : Aug 15, 2017  Faithwire.com

It seems like the more people march and carry signs—and the more churches bind together to say 'Stop the violence'—the more they disregard it and just continue to kill." -parishioner Bruno Carter

airlift(Chicago)—[Faithwire.com] Chicago is facing one of its most violent years on record, and the troubling statistics worsened over the weekend with the murder of two men outside a church on the city's West Side. Emmanuel Fleming was walking up the steps of South Austin's Friendship Baptist Church with his three young children around 11:15 a.m. on Sunday when two gunmen ran toward the church and opened fire. (Photo Credit: Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune/via Faithwire.com)

As the Chicago Tribune reports, Fleming, who served as an usher, was struck as he yelled for his children, all under the age of 10, to take cover, while Michael Smith, a 46-year-old visiting the church, tried to duck behind a nearby retaining wall but failed to do so in time. The men were rushed to area hospitals where they were pronounced dead.

They were on their way up the steps to the church, and two gunmen ran up from Jackson (Boulevard) and basically unloaded on them," Rev. Reginald Bachus told the Tribune...

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