"CHICAGO – Earlier this year, Romell Young got into a fist fight on the street near his home on the city’s West Side, pummeling a man in a brawl that was spurred by an argument he can’t even remember.
Young does, however, have a huge scar to remind him what happened after he gave his rival a whupping: The man returned with a gun and shot him in the leg.At the hospital, police asked Young, 23, to tell them who shot him, but he said he declined to name the assailant.
Weeks after the April incident, Young — who has a long arrest record and a felony conviction for drug possession — was charged for illegal possession of a firearm, when police said they caught him on the street with a weapon.
“I believe karma is (vengeful), you feel me?” said Young, explaining to USA TODAY in a July jailhouse interview why he didn’t name the man who shot him.
“One day you’re going to reap what you sow.”
Young’s no-snitching outlook sheds light on the complicated dynamic in Chicago’s neighborhoods plagued by persistent gun violence, one in which few residents are willing to assist police and even fewer perpetrators are held accountable.
Over the weekend, at least 72 people were shot in the city, including 12 fatally, but police did not record a single arrest in any of the incidents..."
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