Police are investigating a woman’s claim that she was shot in the foot after leaving a Lincoln Park bar early Saturday morning.
The 33-year-old woman walked into Stroger Hospital around 3:50 a.m. with a gunshot wound to her right foot. She told Chicago police she was a passenger in a vehicle traveling in the 1100 block of West Wrightwood when she heard gunshots and realized she had been hit, according to a CPD media statement. She was listed in fair condition, police said.
But police received no calls reporting gunfire in the area. Neither the woman nor anyone else in the vehicle called 911 to report that they had been shot at, and officers did not find shell casings or other evidence of a shooting in the area.
If investigators determine the woman was shot as she described, she would be the fourth person shot in Lincoln Park this year. Two of the other shootings, including one that was fatal, have been linked by city officials to The Dime, a now-shuttered bar in the 2200 block of North Lincoln Avenue. The bar was about four blocks south of where the woman reported being shot.
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