Police are investigating after a 24-year-old man was shot Thursday evening in the Lakeview neighborhood.
At about 7:43 p.m., 911 callers reported shots fired, bringing police to the 2000 block of West George. Officers found 12 shell casings along with a bottle of promethazine, a prescription antihistamine that is often used illicitly in combination with soft drinks to make an intoxicating “drank.”
But the victim wasn’t there. He had already been driven to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he walked in with a gunshot wound to his abdomen. According to a CPD statement, the man “related to responding officers that he was outside when he heard a loud noise and felt pain.” He was in good condition.
Technically, the shooting occurred in the North Center community area. It’s the third shooting of the year for North Center. By comparison, North Center had two shootings in all of last year and one in all of 2023.
There had been three people shot in North Center at this point in both 2022 and 2021.
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