2 shootings reported within hour of each other on Chicago expressway
CHICAGO (CBS) — Two shootings happened within an hour of each other overnight on Interstate 57, Illinois State Police said.
The first shooting happened just before 1:30 a.m. in the northbound lanes at I-94, where troopers responded to a report of an expressway shooting.
The victim's vehicle was hit by gunfire. No one was hurt.
While troopers were investigating that shooting, another also occurred in the northbound lanes just after 2 a.m. at Halsted.
State police said someone in the offending vehicle fired shots at another vehicle before crashing and rolling over. All occupants of the offending vehicle left the scene.
No injuries were reported in that incident.
All lanes reopened just before 5 a.m.
Investigation into both shootings remains ongoing.
Earlier this week, a man was charged with murder in a deadly road rage shooting on I-80 near New Lenox.
Phillip Rogers, 45, is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon in the shooting death of 30-year-old Lenier Clayton.
Clayton's family went to Will County Court on Wednesday to face the accused gunman.
Clayton's sister, Mia, said the details they learned are disturbing.
"We knew he had been shot multiple times. We didn't know how many times. So finding out that he shot at him 11 times, that nine of him hit him, and that most of them were in his back, it's sickening. There was no reason for it," she said.
Illinois State Police said there have been 79 shootings on Chicago area expressways so far this year, down from last year, when there were 129 expressway shootings in all of 2023.
Of this year's expressway shootings, 19 were on the Dan Ryan Expressway, 15 were on the Bishop Ford Freeway, 10 were on the Stevenson Expressway, 7 were on Interstate 57, and 2 were on Interstate 80.
