5 injured in shooting along ‘safe passage’ in Chicago
NBC Chicago - Five people were wounded in a Monday evening shooting near a church in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood where volunteers were serving dinner to the homeless, police said.
NBC Chicago –Â Five people were wounded in a Monday evening shooting near a church in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood where volunteers were serving dinner to the homeless, police said.
“I saw when a man got shot in the head there was a puddle of blood,” Na’eem Hoskins said of the 6 p.m. shooting at North Sheridan Road and West Wilson Avenue. “I saw another man got shot in the stomach, and he was just hollering and screaming.”
Police originally said one person was killed in the shooting but on Tuesday clarified the victim was in extremely critical condition.
More than 20 bullet casings were left in the busy intersection after the victims, all males, were transported to nearby hospitals. Police said one of the victims later died, but a spokesman for the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office could not confirm the fatality as 7:45 p.m.
Witnesses said shots rang out as a car drove through the area, which is one of Chicago Public Schools’ Safe Passage routes designed to give students a protected path to and from school.
“It looked like a war had took place,” said Joseph Rogers, a security guard at the nearby Uptown Shop & Save market. “There was blood everywhere. There was glass on the ground from the bus stop. There was one guy sitting on the ground shot in the leg.”
At least one of the victims stumbled to the stairs of the Uptown Baptist Church, where at least 40 parishioners from Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington were volunteering.
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