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Top cop blasts 'senseless' killing

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry F. McCarthy expressed blunt outrage on Tuesday after a shooting wounded an infant and killed the child's mother and grandmother, as they returned home from a family outing on Monday night. "Here we go again," McCarthy told reporters. "I'm furious that children and expectant mothers and public servants ... are becoming victims of senseless gun violence in this city.