CHICAGO — One man is lifeless and two others injured following a capturing close to the Howard CTA station in Rogers Park on Wednesday afternoon, in line with Chicago police. The capturing occurred on a block that has been the scene of a number of shootouts and shootings this 12 months.
In a short media assertion, CPD stated the three victims had been on the sidewalk within the 1600 block of West Howard when somebody started capturing at them from a passing automotive. Surveillance video reviewed by CWBChicago, nonetheless, exhibits three males had been strolling east on Howard Road after they acquired right into a struggle with one another and fell to the bottom.
Considered one of them, a 29-year-old man, by no means returned to his ft. He was pronounced lifeless on the scene. An 18-year-old man who was shot within the chest ran a brief distance and collapsed close to Gale Neighborhood Academy. CPD officers stated they recovered a handgun from him. He was in good situation, in line 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 crucial situation.
In a Fb publish, Ald. Maria Hadden (forty ninth) said 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 newest capturing earlier than Wednesday occurred Sunday night on the Morse CTA station. That sufferer died.
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