Video circulating on-line exhibits the moments main as much as the capturing of a person within the West Loop on Sunday night, with the footage suggesting the assault could have been gang-related.
The capturing occurred round 10:38 p.m. within the 200 block of North Peoria, in accordance with CPD. The division didn’t present a motive for the capturing.
A short video, shared on Instagram by the account Chitown Gangs, exhibits a number of males surrounding the 25-year-old sufferer and repeatedly kicking and punching him as he curls right into a defensive place on the sidewalk. The attackers seem to taunt the person throughout the beating.
“ what’s up!”
“Get his a**!”
“ what’s up!”
“File this s***!”
A single gunshot is then heard on the recording, adopted instantly by the sufferer screaming in ache. Moments later, the assailants, together with the individual filming the video, are seen operating away from the scene.
Regardless of struggling a gunshot wound beneath his proper knee, the person was in a position to make his solution to a close-by bar. A employees member there supplied first assist till cops and paramedics arrived to take the sufferer to Northwestern Hospital, the place he was listed in honest situation.
No arrests have been introduced, and detectives proceed to analyze the capturing.
The footage, which can be disturbing to some viewers, is out there right here.
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Tim Hecke is CWBChicago’s managing companion. He began his profession at KMOX, the legendary information radio station in St. Louis. From there, he moved on to work at stations in Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York Metropolis. Tim went on to construct syndicated radio information and content material companies that served each one among America’s 100 largest radio markets. He turned CWBChicago’s managing companion in 2019.
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