Police are investigating a drive-by capturing that left a teen critically injured in Logan Sq. final evening. It’s the second capturing reported within the instant space since Thursday.
At about 5:10 p.m., 911 callers reported photographs fired within the 1600 block of North Washtenaw and a witness informed police {that a} black sedan sped away west on North Avenue after somebody fired photographs from the entrance passenger seat.
Minutes later, a 17-year-old walked into St. Mary’s Hospital with a gunshot wound to his left shoulder. He informed investigators he had been strolling on the sidewalk when he heard gunfire. CPD mentioned he was in crucial situation. Officers recovered roughly 9 shell casings close to Wabansia and Washtenaw.
The capturing might give CWBChicago readers a way of déjà vu.
On Thursday evening, a 27-year-old man walked into St. Mary’s Hospital with a gunshot wound to his proper shoulder, reporting that he was shot whereas strolling close to Wabansia and Rockwell, one block from final evening’s capturing.
On the time, a Chicago police media assertion mentioned the capturing occurred in Bucktown within the 1700 block of West Wabansia, a number of blocks east of the place the sufferer mentioned it did. Nevertheless, metropolis crime data have since been up to date to replicate that it occurred within the 1700 block of North Rockwell, constant together with his authentic assertion.
No arrests have been introduced in both capturing.
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