CHICAGO — A person was shot throughout an argument in a North Facet motel parking zone on Friday evening, in accordance with Chicago police.
At about 8:50 p.m., a 41-year-old man obtained right into a verbal altercation with one other man exterior the Summit Motel, 5308 North Lincoln, within the Budlong Woods part of Lincoln Sq., officers mentioned.
The second man pulled out a gun throughout the argument and fired photographs, hanging the sufferer within the abdomen. CPD mentioned the sufferer was in honest situation.
A witness mentioned the gunman is in a relationship with the sufferer’s sister. Police had been working to verify that. He was described as White, heavyset, and about six ft tall. He was shirtless when he fled the taking pictures scene.
The taking pictures is the third of the yr for Lincoln Sq.. There have been 4 shootings throughout comparable intervals in 2023 and 2021, and 5 in 2022 and 2019. Lincoln Sq. had just one taking pictures as of this date in 2020.
The latest taking pictures in Lincoln Sq. was on September 15 within the 2300 block of West Eastwood. In a quick media assertion, CPD reported {that a} 16-year-old boy was standing exterior when he was “struck by gunfire from an unknown offender” round 7:01 p.m.
This yr’s different sufferer was an off-duty Chicago police recruit who was shot whereas driving within the 2600 block of West Gunnison on June 4.
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