Fatal shooting during carjacking in Northalsted might be linked to deadly shooting in Bronzeville
A man was shot and killed early Wednesday during a carjacking in Chicago's Northalsted district, and the car that was stolen might have been used in a deadly shooting a short time later in Bronzeville.
At 3:59 a.m., two men were sitting in a car in the 700 block of West Waveland Avenue, between Halsted Street and Broadway, when the two men came up and demanded their car and personal belongings, police said.
The carjackers then fired guns at the victims, police said. One of the victims, 22, was shot in the chest and back and was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he died, police said.
The other victim, 38, was uninjured.
The carjackers got into the victims' car and took off, police said.
On its north side, the block of Waveland Avenue in question is dominated by businesses that front the rear of a strip mall facing Broadway, including an L.A. Tan, a Panino's Pizzeria, a Verizon store, and a 7-Eleven on the corner of Waveland Avenue and Broadway. On its south side, the side of the Big Mini Putt Club and a parking lot for a Walgreens front the block.
Only the 7-Eleven would have been open at the time.
AJ Horne was leaving his house to get coffee and run errands at the time, when he realized something was wrong.
"I'm getting ready, and I can hear the sirens. You don't usually hear sirens," said Horne. "I've been at my place here 30 years, and I've seen the change. I've seen people come up here to take advantage of other people that live in this neighborhood."
The same car stolen from in the North Side incident may have been involved in another incident on the city's South Side. At 4:50 a.m., less than an hour after the Waveland Avenue carjacking and shooting, investigators were called to the 3700 block of South Lake Park Avenue in Bronzeville for a report of a man shot in the head.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Marco Whetstone said he and other neighbors were disturbed to hear what happened.
"It was a little shocking, you could say, yeah, because it's usually very quiet around here," Whetstone said.
Police dispatch audio indicated that the victim in Bronzeville was found in the same car that was carjacked in the Waveland Avenue incident, with the same license plate. But as of Wednesday afternoon, Chicago police were not publicly connecting the two incidents.
No one was in custody Wednesday morning in either shooting. Belmont Area detectives were investigating the initial shooting and carjacking, while Wentworth Area detectives were investigating the second shooting.
Neither person who was killed in the two shootings have been identified as of Wednesday afternoon.
