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We’re just over a month out from the shooting in Newtown, Conn., and gun violence is maintaining a strong hold on the nation. Cleveland is no different.

Slate has partnered with @GunDeaths to provide information on gun deaths in the U.S. – with the obvious caveat that accuracy isn’t 100 percent guaranteed.

Since Dec. 14, five people have died from gun wounds in Cleveland:

– Deangelo Chandler
– Dontel Sheeley Sr.
– Nathan Brown
– Brian Wilson
– 54-year-old man whose name has not yet been released

And 917 people have died from gun wounds across the country.

This morning, a 17-year-old boy was shot on Cleveland’s east side. His condition is unknown at this time, according to WEWS.

This article appears in Jan 9-15, 2013.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.

6 replies on “Five Gun Deaths in Cleveland Since Newtown’s Tragedy”

  1. Want to bet more people died from stabbings in the same time frame?..Check out Pointythingsdeaths..lol

  2. “…..gun violence is maintaining a strong hold on the nation”. Mr. Sandy, excuse me but are you mentally handicapped or just infatuated with hyperbole? FBI crime statistics clearly show that the murder rate in this country is half of what it was in 1980 when there were 100million less people. And Most gun violence is what Mr. Sandy? Answer, suicide. Hard to blame a weapon that holds a ten round clip on suicide. BTW, how many deaths are attributed to cars every year? Should we make the speed limit everywhere, 5 mph? How many deaths were attributed to people falling off ladders? Should we out law ladders? The authors of Freakanomics, report that more deaths occur in the backyard pool than by gun violence. Maybe we should outlaw backyard pools.You’re an alarmist Mr. Sandy. Leftist, what they good for, absolutely nothing! Say it again, huh!

  5. This is what happens when you have people that don’t know what they’re talking about writing articles about current events. The proper credentials for writing this little blog story here should not be “I don’t like guns and think all guns are BAD.”

  6. That doesn’t mean that Sandy Hook and all these other gun massacres are acceptable. When children drown in pools, home-owners put up fences. Car companies design better air bags to prevent car collision fatalities. If a series of mentally ill people get their hands on semi-automatic, military grade weapons, maybe we need to do better background checks on individuals AND families interested in owning these sorts of weapons. Maybe the law-abiding gun enthusiast will wield his weapon safely, but his paranoid schizophrenic teenager might not be so responsible. Something has to change…and none of you are “schooling” anybody until you come up with SOLUTIONS, or at least hypotheses for what could make things at least marginally safer.

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