A man was critically injured Sunday night after being shot during an argument in a North Side park, according to Chicago police.
Officers responded around 9:45 p.m. to the 2800 block of North Clybourn Avenue, where they found a 38-year-old man unresponsive on the ground with a gunshot wound to his left knee, police said in a media statement. Responding officers applied a tourniquet to control the victim’s bleeding before paramedics transported him to the hospital in critical condition.
According to preliminary information, the shooting followed a dispute between the victim and another man while they were drinking in the park. A witness told officers she heard a verbal argument followed by two loud noises from outside.
CPD was looking for a suspect described as a Hispanic man of medium build, standing between 5 feet 6 inches and 5 feet 10 inches tall, and wearing all black. He was last seen heading east on George Street.
The victim is the fourth person shot in the North Center community area this year. That figure is tied with 2021 for the highest year-to-date shooting total for the neighborhood since at least 2019. The area had just one shooting as of this date in 2019, 2023, and 2024. There were two in 2020 and three in 2022.
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