shi8 is crazy down there the government should get envolved and stop this maddness.
The killer stood over 13-year-old Robert Freeman’s bleeding body and pulled the trigger again, again and again.

But though he was just feet from the 8th grader’s face on the Far South Side Wednesday night, the gunman got the wrong kid, police sources said.

Bloodstained pavement and a makeshift memorial of teddy bears Thursday morning marked the spot on the 11500 block of South Perry where the latest Chicago schoolboy murder victim fell, in an apparent case of mistaken identity.

“The doctor told me he found 22 bullet holes in my baby. Twenty-two,” said his devastated mother, Theresa Lumpkin, who ran from her home moments after the shooting to find Robert dying in the street outside.

“That’s too many to...give a 13-year-old child,” she told ABC7. “You’re not supposed to kill a baby, not a kid. Period.”

Dozens of youths were hanging out in the street at 8 p.m. Wednesday when the killers snuck through a thicket of overgrown weeds in an empty lot and opened fire, relatives said.

Robert, who moved to West Pullman a few months earlier, had quickly established himself as a friendly face on the block, mowing lawns for pocket money and riding his bicycle with an infectious smile, neighbors said.

He attended Oglesby Elementary School, but when his family moved he transferred him out of the Chicago school system in May.

Wednesday night wasn’t his first brush with trouble, a police source said. Earlier this summer he was arrested for allegedly throwing bricks at car windows.

But Lumpkin said she told her son all the time to stay out of trouble. And she said he always told her, “ ‘Momma, I ain’t like that.’ ”

“He loved fishing, and he was always begging me to send him to his grandma’s in Saginaw, Michigan, so he could go fish there,” she said. “I wish I’d listened to him. . . . He might still be alive.”

Lumpkin said Robert was still conscious when she rushed out to him Wednesday night.

“He was saying, ‘Go get my momma,’ ” she said. “I’m hurt — it hurts real bad.”

Detectives spent Thursday interviewing witnesses but had no suspects in custody. They appealed for the public’s help.

The neighborhood has been plagued by crime. In the past two years, there have been two other killings within a block of where Robert was killed. In July alone, there were two armed robberies with a handgun and six batteries within a block, police records show, while 16-year-old Jeremiah Sterling was shot dead in a gang dispute a mile away on July 15.

Elonda Jackson, whose 15-year-old nephew Percy Rounds was gunned down in an unsolved July 2008 killing less than 100 yards from Wednesday’s murder scene, said, “what can you do when there are all these random killings?”

“It grips you to the depths of your soul.... You just want to know why, but we still don’t.”

And Riccardo Pittman, whose niece Elaine Brown was shot in the face in 2008 a block from where Robert was killed, and whose daughter, Leslie Brown, was strangled to death a half mile away, police say, by alleged serial killer Michael Johnson, added “The killing is totally senseless out here. It never stops.”

Neighbor Cola Townsend, 80, said that after he heard the gunshots Wednesday, he looked outside and saw “the boy was lying there in the street and 10 little kids in white T-shirts were running away as the cops arrived, like they always do.

“I’ve lived on this block 35 years, and it’s never been this bad.”

This is what happens when you tear down projects and relocate "gangbangers" throughout the city.

not even....thats wat happends when u cut jobs and raise taxes in chicago LOL

^yeah the city near where i live in de is getting really bad too, i passed a streetside memorial yesterday goin to pick my friend up from work, shits gettin real sad how much ppl are killin each other out there

Shit is fucked up I lost one of my guys on tha 9th by 103rd n aberdeen...RIP

RIP to ur guy...and to everyone that we have lost.

If you want the answer to the question of violence in urban city's you need to ask the leader of young black america and the face of the new african american generation "LIL B" the based god.

The answer lies in him and lil wayne...Real talk

^ There is both sarcasm and truth in that statement...

thanks homie...shit in the Chi is gettin worse by the year brothas need to realize that the world dosent revolve around one block or corner

Police just shot up some kid in Lil Haiti with 17 rounds. He had a gun but didn't pull it... How fucked up is that??

word to that yo...shit is hectic i feel for all the families that have lost a youngin due to all this shit...and to all the rest, i mean i understand that people make mistakes and sometimes do wrong.......but come on...there are so many fucked up situations where someone has to die over bullshit.....and apparently most of the police are doing the shooting...when was it?....like 2 days ago where that guy was shot by 91st? cuz he supposedly was "intentionally" tryna ram the squad cars with his BURNING CAR...wat kinda shit is that and when he got outta the car they lit him up with 2 clips................................................injured his girl and i dont think the other 2 people were injured.....but they got the nerver to call all the people in the car suspects WTFFFFF.....AND!!!!! oh get this!!!! u finna laugh........................the cover story was called "Officers Injured"....BULL.........................SHIT........................and not "Unrighteous Murder by Officers"........fuck Chicago Police,........and fuck Jody Weis.......................................................................i shall end my rant here...alll of yall please be safe and file Civil Rights Lawsuits if they tryna harass you...PEACE

PREACH! Shit is getting bad for real tho it is crazy. Is that just a chicago thing with ramming people with their cars? cuz i never heard about that in any other hoods. straight up have beater cars chilling on each corner in case shit pops off they will hop in and ram dudes.

I'm gonna be livin' out there in 10 days on State and Jackson. The night I move out there imma hit up the Distant Relatives show at the North coast festival. Should be an epic night/week. Chi-town here I come!!!

wow thats plush kid...get it in...yo jro hit me on the horn when u get a chance

I saw something I believe on Dateline a week or so ago about Chicago killings.Sad.

Northcoast fest looks dope. nas , de la, lupe hell yeah