CHICAGO — One man is useless and two others injured following a capturing close to the Howard CTA station in Rogers Park on Wednesday afternoon, in accordance with Chicago police. The capturing occurred on a block that has been the scene of a number of shootouts and shootings this yr.
In a short media assertion, CPD mentioned the three victims have been on the sidewalk within the 1600 block of West Howard at 2:51 p.m. when somebody started capturing at them from a passing automotive. Surveillance video reviewed by CWBChicago, nonetheless, exhibits three males have been strolling east on Howard Avenue after they bought right into a combat with one another and fell to the bottom.
One among them, a 29-year-old man, by no means returned to his ft. He was pronounced useless on the scene. An 18-year-old man who was shot within the chest ran a brief distance and collapsed close to Gale Group Academy. CPD officers mentioned they recovered a handgun from him. He was in good situation, in accordance with the police assertion.
A 20-year-old man arrived at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston by personal automotive. He was shot within the chest and was in essential situation.
In a Fb put up, Ald. Maria Hadden (forty ninth) acknowledged that the capturing didn’t have an effect on CTA practice operations.
The victims are the twenty third, twenty fourth, and twenty fifth individuals shot in Rogers Park this week. Six individuals have been shot within the neighborhood this month. The latest capturing earlier than Wednesday occurred Sunday night on the Morse CTA station. That sufferer died.
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