'He kept shooting': Victim of road rage talks about how she was shot six times on I-57 in Matteson
OAK LAWN, Ill. (CBS) -- A Chicago woman is in the hospital after she was shot six times on Interstate 57 in the south suburbs, in what has been called a case of road rage.
As CBS 2's Charlie De Mar reported, the woman's family wanted to know Monday night why the shooter hadn't bene charged.
Cellphone video shows a nearly lifeless Aaliyah Ivory on the pavement of I-57 near Vollmer Road in Matteson Saturday, after she was shot six times. The bullet holes busted through the back windshield of Ivory's Ford Focus.
Ivory survived, and we spoke with her from Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
"I'm in so much pain," Ivory said.
Ivory said she was cut off and then returned the favor. She and the other driver exchanged vulgarities and slurs, and then came the shots, said Ivory – who was on her way to see her sister, Ashlee Johnson.
"Concealed or not, that is outrageous that just simple words could enrage you like that," Johnson said.
Johnson said Illinois State Police have told their family the suspected shooter has a concealed carry license and told troopers he feared for his life.
Ivory said she also has a concealed carry license, but claims she never pulled out her gun.
"How did he fear for his life?" she said. "I never drew my gun. I never gave him no reason to shoot me – and then you shoot me six times."
"My sister is concealed to carry," Johnson added. "She does have a weapon, but she never drew her weapon; never shot her weapon. Her weapon was never taken off safety."
Along with the physical pain, Ivory and her sister are frustrated that the suspected shooter has not been charged. They say he waited on scene for police to arrive after the shooting — cellphone video appears to show him going into the back of a squad car.
"All of the shots were in the back of her car," Johnson said. "Be held accountable for the things that you do."
Illinois State Police won't say much about this shooting, and said so far, no arrests have been made.
CBS 2 Legal Analyst Irv Miller says if the Illinois State Police determine the shots were fired in self-defense and the man who fired them is, in fact, a legal gun owner, it is unlikely charges would be filed.
