Man shot to death while exiting car in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood
A man was shot and killed while getting out of his car in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood Saturday night.
The shooting happened just before 11:30 p.m. Saturday in the 2500 block of South Hillock Avenue. Hillock Avenue runs northeast-southwest, parallel to Archer Avenue and the Stevenson Expressway, in an off-grid cluster of streets south of the Chicago River's South Branch.
Chicago Police said officers responded to a call of a person shot and found the victim on the ground.
The victim was getting out of his car when a red sport-utility vehicle approached him, and someone from inside fired shots in his direction.
He was taken to Stroger Hospital of Cook County with multiple gunshot wounds to the body and was pronounced dead.
The victim was identified as 36-year-old Nicholas Pinto by the Medical Examiner's Office.
The scene of the shooting was just a few feet away from the Engine 28 fire station at 2534 S. Throop St.
Neighbors say shootings rarely happen in this neighborhood. One neighbor said the shooting rattled her to the core.
"Yeah, totally terrified," said Maxine Leung.
The gunshots were an unfamiliar sound for Leung and many of her neighbors.
Leung thought she heard fireworks, but she soon realized someone was shot.
"I heard, you know, a woman screaming," she said. "It was a very scary situation. It scared me. I didn't know what I was supposed to do."
One neighbor, who didn't want to say his name, also described what he heard.
"I just heard like, seven to eight really loud bangs. It was like, bah-bah-bah-bah-bah bang!" the neighbor said. "And yeah, I was kind of scared. So I was like texting like my neighbors and stuff. It was, overall, just was kind of scary."
Dispatch audio indicated that police found about 15 rifle casings and 10 9mm casings at the scene.
Meanwhile, there are surveillance cameras on just about every house on Hillock Avenue.
While Leung said she did not know the victim that well, she is planning to increase her security.
"Maybe put more cameras and alarm systems and make sure," she said. "You know, that's why I have a gate."
Police late Sunday were still gathering information about what lead up to the deadly shooting. No one was in custody, and Wentworth Area detectives were investigating.
