SUV flips over in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood after shots are fired at police
A suspect was in custody after firing shots at Chicago police officers before crashing an SUV into two parked cars Monday morning in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
Police said, shortly after 6 a.m., a man fired shots at two marked squad cars in the 7500 block of South Peoria Street, then got into a black Nissan SUV and fled the scene. The officers were not injured and did not return fire.
Officers chased the suspect, who crashed into two parked cars in the 7600 block of South Union Avenue, and ran off. At that point, K9 units were requested, and police caught the suspect minutes later half a block over in a backyard at 76th Street and Lowe Avenue.
Two parked vehicles were damaged in the crash — a gray Ford left askew in the road with front-end damage, and a white-sport utility vehicle that ended up mangled and flipped on its side on the sidewalk.
Following the chain of events, 76th Street was closed between Halsted Street and Lowe Avenue.
Meanwhile, a black getaway SUV was also involved in three shootings miles apart in various parts of Chicago Sunday night.
The first shooting happened at 8:32 p.m. in the 3900 block of West 62nd Street, between Springfield Avenue and Pulaski Road in the West Lawn neighborhood. Police said a 45-year-old man identified as Carlos Navarro Perez was standing outside when he was shot in the head, and later died.
About an hour and a half later, at 10:04 p.m., a 15-year-old boy was standing outside in the 6600 block of South Rhodes Avenue in the West Woodlawn neighborhood, more than six miles away from the first scene, when he was shot in the abdomen and arm. He was expected to recover.
Finally, at 11:07 p.m., two men, ages 21 and 18, were traveling in a car in the 5600 block of West Wrightwood Avenue in the Belmont Central neighborhood — on the opposite side of the city — when they were both shot. Both were taken to Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in good condition.
Police have not confirmed whether these three shootings were related, nor whether the Monday morning incident involving shots fired and the crash was related to them.
