Overnight shooting in Rogers Park is neighborhood’s fourth of the week

A 19-year-old man was shot he stood on a Rogers Park sidewalk overnight, police said, making him the neighborhood’s fourth shooting victim in five days and the fifth in a month.

The victim was in the 1400 block of West Jonquil Terrace when shots were fired, and one bullet struck him in the lower left leg around 2:06 a.m., according to CPD dispatch records. He called police a short time later from his nearby apartment.

A witness reported seeing a man standing in front of the victim’s apartment building firing shots around the time of the shooting, CPD records show. Police found a car with a bullet hole in it and a shell casing lying near the intersection of Sheridan and Jonquil Terrace. A blood trail linked those scenes with the victim’s apartment, officers said. Paramedics transported the man to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston for treatment.

In other recent Rogers Park shootings:

  • A 32-year-old man told police he was shot as he got out of his car in the 1500 block of West Howard around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, May 15.
  • Also over the weekend, two men were injured in separate drive-by shootings late Friday and early Saturday, according to police. Both victims were in good condition.
  • On April 24, a gunman shot a 35-year-old man who answered a knock on an apartment door in the 1500 block of West Howard.

No charges have been filed in any of the shootings. Area Three detectives are investigating.

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