Man shot, critically injured on CTA platform in the Loop

CHICAGO — Police are in search of a recognized suspect after a person was shot on a Inexperienced Line platform within the Loop on Christmas Eve.

A witness ran as much as officers engaged on an unrelated task to tell them of the capturing on the Clark-Lake station round 9:39 a.m. The cops discovered the sufferer, 45, mendacity outdoors the station’s entrance on Lake Road moments later.

The sufferer instructed police that he believed a person stole one thing from him and the person began capturing when he confronted him in regards to the suspected theft. Police are in search of a 43-year-old suspect, a Black male who was final seen carrying a brown leather-based jacket with a gun inside a small brown Louis Vuitton bag. Officers discovered shell casings on the practice platform, which additionally serves Brown, Orange, Pink, and Purple Line trains.

In a short media assertion, Chicago police stated the sufferer was in essential situation with three gunshot wounds at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Up to now this yr, 14 individuals have been shot within the Loop, down from 16 at this level final yr. Whereas nonetheless excessive in comparison with long-term averages, the variety of shootings within the downtown neighborhood has fallen from unheard-of numbers skilled in the course of the COVID pandemic. The neighborhood had 39 capturing victims at this level in 2022 and 28 by this date in 2021.

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