CHICAGO — One man is dead and another critically injured after they were found shot in Andersonville on Tuesday night, police said.
A passerby found the first victim, 26, lying in the street near Balmoral and Ashland around 9:13 p.m. Chicago police said he was taken to St. Francis Hospital in critical condition with gunshot wounds to the shoulder and neck.
Before losing consciousness, he told police that he had been shot while sitting in his car in a nearby Walgreens parking lot.
Officers found his car crashed into a garage behind the 5400 block of North Ashland moments later with a gravely injured man in the passenger seat. The second victim, who remained unidentified as of late Tuesday, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators found a bullet hole in the BMW’s driver’s door. They also recovered about eight shell casings and other evidence near the vehicle, according to an officer at the scene.
Ald. Andre Vasquez (40th) said police received no calls of shots fired in the area.
“It is believed that the shooting incident itself may have occurred elsewhere,” Vasquez told his constituents in an email.
While Vasquez’s ward never had ShotSpotter gunfire detection devices, he was a vocal opponent of the technology as Mayor Brandon Johnson ended the city’s relationship with the company in September.
Had ShotSpotter been deployed in Vasquez’s ward last night, officials might have a better idea of where the shooting occurred if, as the alderman stated, it occurred somewhere other than where the shell casings were found.
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