Quizzed about the spiralling murder rate Sunday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said, “We’re containing it.”

After two members of the family were killed within 6 months, brother wants to move back to Africa.  It's safer than gun-controlled Chicago.

They came to the U.S. from Gambia — in search of a better life.

But two tough decades later, some of Kenwood Academy High School student Muhammed Kebbeh’s family say they are considering going back to Africa after he became the city’s 370th murder victim this year and second of his six siblings to be gunned down on the South Side in the last six months.

“I want to pack everything up and go back,” his oldest brother, Momadu Kebbeh, 36, said Wednesday, as his devoutly Muslim family mourned and prayed at their Washington Park home. “What’s the point of staying here?”

 

It may not be hope, but it's certainly change.