Irving Park shootout shatters windows, leaves 17-year-old with graze wound

CHICAGO (CBS) -- One person was injured in a shootout that left a trail of bullets through buildings and in the street early Friday morning in the Irving Park neighborhood.

Surveillance video from a gas station near the shooting gives some more insight on how the shootout happened, and might include the moment a teenager was grazed by one of those bullets. Windows were shot out, and bullet casings were left all over the road.

Meanwhile, the teenager is not cooperating with police. But those who had shots hit their homes had a lot to say to CBS 2's Tara Molina.

The video shows two cars pull into the Shell gas station on Irving Park Road near California Avenue, at the southwest corner of Horner Park shortly after 3 a.m.

One of those cars reverses into a gas pump to fill up. A short time later, some of the occupants from the cars start talking to each other.

About a minute later, one car leaves, and a young man still walking near the pumps at the gas station gets inside a red sedan, quickly ducking as he gets in the front passenger seat, his feet barely off the ground as the car pulls off.

From another angle, the video shows a third car pull into view, a small cloud of smoke or debris near that car before they pull off.

Witnesses said people in two different cars were shooting at each other near the gas station.

The shootout left more than a dozen shell casings in the street, and bullet holes in nearby buildings. Unmarked bullet casings were still on the sidewalk when CBS 2 arrived on the scene – and Chicago Police were back to take more photos for evidence and the damage left behind from the shooting.

In one apartment building, the glass in several units was left shattered by the automatic gunfire. The people who live there say what happened is unacceptable.

Aleksandra Matejevic, a mother of three, is still trying to wrap her head around what happened.

"I mean, I'm still in shock," she said. "This is really terrible."

Matejevic is thankful her children slept through round after round of gunfire. But her neighbors glass windows and doors shattered.

"I'm super-scared now," Matejevic said. "I don't want to go outside, honestly."

Matejevic's neighbor, Hector De Leon, had a bullet hit his unit.

"One inch to the left, and it would've gone straight through my bedroom window," De Leon said.

Another man, Aaron Koppel, showed where stray bullets came through his windows and into his kitchen, leaving shattered glass on the table and a bullet hole in the cabinet.

This all happened while he and his child slept.

"I was in bed. I heard gunshots. I ran to my daughter's room, and while I'm running, they went through my widow, and then I got in bed with her. There was a lot of gunshots," Koppel said.

The nearby residents said one incident like this is enough to make them question everything.

"You have to let the streets know that you can't keep doing this, you know - and if they know that nothing is going to happen to them, then they're going to keep doing it, DeLeon said.

They are hopeful violence in the city, across the city, is going to be addressed by Mayor Brandon Johnson.

"The mayor knows what they have to do to crack down on violence," said De Leon.

The 17-year-old boy who was grazed in the head by a bullet was dropped by a red sedan at Swedish Hospital. He was in good condition. Again, police said he is not cooperating.

"This is by no means an unsafe neighborhood, but it's just creeping into everywhere in Chicago," De Leon said.

Area 5 detectives were investigating the shootout Friday afternoon. No one was in custody.