
Man Shot, Critically Wounded On Red Line At 63rd Street
A man was shot and left in critical condition Tuesday night on a CTA Red Line train at the 63rd Street stop. CBS 2's Charlie De Mar reports.
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A man was shot and left in critical condition Tuesday night on a CTA Red Line train at the 63rd Street stop. CBS 2's Charlie De Mar reports.
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Police said the boy was riding on a CTA bus near 63rd and California, when he was struck in the head by a bullet from a nearby shooting.
Illinois State Police said a bus with 45 people on board collided with an SUV around 3:30 p.m. in the southbound lanes near 63rd Street.
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About 10:25 p.m., the man was getting into a car at the station in the 100 block of West 63rd Street when a white SUV pulled up and someone inside shot him in the buttocks, police said.
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State Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said the unmarked squad car was damaged by some type of debris as the car was near the 63rd Street exit, though it was "unclear if the debris was metal, a bullet, a rock, etc."
The bodies were discovered about 4:15 p.m. inside a home in the 4100 block of West 63rd Street, police said. The 17-year-old boy and the 28-year-old man were both shot and pronounced dead at the scene.
According to a community alert from Chicago Police, the girl was walking home from school in the 1000 block of East 63rd Street shortly before 4 p.m., when a man grabbed her from behind, and tried to pull her into a white full-sized van with painted windows.
Two men, ages 34 and 35, were standing outside in the 2000 block of West 63rd Street about 2:37 a.m. when a black vehicle pulled up and someone inside opened fire, police said. The vehicle then drove off in an unknown direction.
Joey Jones, 31, has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 57-year-old Omar Maslat, a cashier at a convenience store in the 2400 block of West 63rd Street. He's also been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of 50-year-old Brion Payne in Uptown.
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Police say employees confronted Charles C. McKnight Jr. for allegedly robbing two coworkers, and that's when the shooting started.
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Illinois State Police are investigating following a shooting on the Dan Ryan expressway Sunday morning.
Sources say the shooters got onto the bus and shot a 17-year-old in the head as he sat near the back of the bus.
A 4-year-old boy is dead and three other children are critically injured following a fire in Humboldt Park overnight.
Plenty of sun to start the week.
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