Three people were shot in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side Friday night, one of three overnight shooting incidents on the South Side that left six people wounded, officials said.
At 9:19 p.m. fire paramedics were called to the 7200 block of South Paulina Street and found three victims suffering apparent gunshot wounds, according to a spokesman for Fire Media Affairs.Shots also were fired at the first police officers who responded to a car crash at the scene, according to a spokesman for Chicago Police News Affairs. Police did not fire any shots and no police officers were wounded, the spokesman said.
All three victims suffered gunshot wounds, and at least one of them was injured in the crash. It was not immediately known who fired the shots at police or the victims, according to news affairs.
- In 007 tonight a 10-1 is called as a unit chases a vehicle and shots are fired by the fleeing vehicle at the police several times. At some point the offenders begin bailing out...four in all. Luckily the idiot offenders helped the police out by running over one of their own as he tried to flee. Eventually all four offenders are caught (and rather quickly!), two pistols are recovered, and as the foot chase is taking place the dispatcher relays info that there was a drive-by shooting just a few blocks away by a vehicle matching the description and three people at that scene are shot. I am in a citywide unit and heard the 10-1 come over citywide. I flipped to the zone as we headed that way and have to say it was awesome hearing the units come up one after the other saying...got one in custody. Great job to all the P.O's out there in 007! And Frank Main will never believe the trigger happy cops never fired a round.