Man shot, critically wounded outside West Side Chicago CTA station
Police dispatch audio suggests it may have been a targeted attack, where shots were fired from a black sedan that pulled up on the sidewalk. Andrew Ramos reports.
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Police dispatch audio suggests it may have been a targeted attack, where shots were fired from a black sedan that pulled up on the sidewalk. Andrew Ramos reports.
Police said the 30-year-old victim was walking on the sidewalk along Cicero Avenue at the Eisenhower Expressway when police said a black Nissan sedan pulled up — and someone in the car unleashed a hail of bullets. Andrew Ramos reports.
This was the second shooting in Cicero over the weekend.
One tow truck rammed into another near Cicero Avenue and Marquette Road, in a fight between drivers who wanted to be first to respond to a car that had been in an accident.
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The shooting appears to have taken place while teens were being dispersed from the group and walking through a nearby parking lot.
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The robber took the victim's belongings and ran off the train when it arrived at the Cicero Avenue station, police said.
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The victims, all teenage boys or young men, were outside a residence in the 4200 block of West Crystal Street when they were shot.
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The robber took the victim's belongings and ran off the train when it arrived at the Cicero Avenue station, police said.
The victims, all teenage boys or young men, were outside a residence in the 4200 block of West Crystal Street when they were shot.
The cars were taken to unknown locations by a fictitious tow company, and the victims tried to contact the tow truck driver and company with no success, police said.
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It comes days after more than a dozen businesses in Highland Park and Morton Grove were burglarized in a similar pattern.
