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The murders happened in in Gresham, South Shore and the Austin neighborhoods.

James Callion, 28, was wounded in an exchange of gunfire with cops after he was stopped for a “minor traffic violation” in the 800 block of South Sacramento Boulevard, police said.

He was fired in 2019 for inadvertently shooting and killing a bystander at a West Side home where he said a 19-year-old man charged at him with a baseball bat.

Judge Kelly Marie McCarthy said she couldn’t hold Kailon Harris-Caldwell without bail, as prosecutors requested, because he was hospitalized and didn’t appear in court.

Kailo Harris-Caldwell additionally faces a charge of possession of a controlled substance, police said.

“I got shot in the head, I got shot in the head,” one of the wounded officers radioed.

Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ) looks to build a private 5G network for BlackRock Inc at its new Hudson Yards headquarters, juicing up rivalry with AT&T Inc (NYSE:T) and T-Mobile US Inc (NASDAQ:TMUS). Verizon said that the new 5G wireless technology could replace Wi-Fi and give BlackRock the ability to use applications like virtual reality and edge computing that require…

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