CHICAGO — One man is dead and another is badly injured after someone opened fire on them along the lakefront at Belmont Harbor overnight.
The men, both 22 years old, were standing in a parking area on the harbor’s north peninsula when at least one person fired shots them at from a dark-colored SUV around 12:39 a.m., police said. One of the victims was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center with gunshot wounds to his chest and arm.
Police found four shell casings from at least one rifle at the scene.
Including the latest victims, city records list 12 shooting victims in Lakeview so far this year. However, four of those victims are people who were shot elsewhere and refused to tell police where the shooting occurred after showing up at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center for treatment. As a result, the city lists the hospital as the “location” of the shooting.
Lakeview had six shooting victims at this point last year and 14 as of this date in 2022.
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