Bystanders narrowly escaped Rogers Park gunfire, video shows – CWB Chicago

Newly surfaced video exhibits how shut bystanders got here to being struck throughout Tuesday evening’s capturing in Rogers Park, capturing 9 pictures fired beneath a Howard Road overpass as pedestrians scrambled and a storefront’s glass door shattered.

The 36-year-old man wounded close to Howard Road and Paulina Road round 9:22 p.m. has twice been despatched to jail for shootings, in keeping with court docket data. He stays in crucial situation. CWB Chicago doesn’t determine crime victims by title.

Within the video, two vehicles are seen parked dealing with south on Paulina Road with their hoods raised, apparently with one leaping the opposite’s battery. Close by, one thing attracts the eye of a person stopped in a crosswalk, who turns to observe no matter is unfolding beneath the overpass. Seconds later, 9 pictures ring out.

An individual is seen falling to the bottom below the overpass. The person within the crosswalk scrambles for canopy. The glass door of a close-by forex alternate shatters and cascades to the bottom.

The precise place of the sufferer in the course of the capturing is unclear, however a person believed to be him is seen limping from the vehicles on Paulina to a close-by constructing. He reportedly misplaced a big quantity of blood earlier than first responders arrived. Paramedics transported him to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, the place he was listed in crucial situation.

No less than a half-dozen individuals stroll out from beneath the overpass moments after the capturing. A Chicago Police Division transit unit rolls into view because the video ends. They have been the primary to report the gunfire.

As CWB Chicago reported Wednesday, the sufferer is well-known to Chicago’s police and prison communities. Courtroom data present he has been despatched to jail twice in reference to shootings — as soon as for capturing somebody in 2006, and once more for firing at an occupied automobile in the course of the pandemic.

Police haven’t launched an outline of the gunman, and no arrests have been introduced. The motive stays unknown.

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