2 Wounded In Another Spate Of 1-57 Shootings

CALUMET PARK, IL — A pair of shootings just hours apart on the I-57 near Calumet Park left two people wounded Saturday. As of Sunday afternoon, no arrests were announced in the shootings, the latest on a stretch of highway with a history of gun violence.

Police are investigating the Saturday evening shooting of a 30-year-old woman who was grazed by a bullet while she was driving near 127th Street, the Chicago Sun Times reported. She was driving one of four vehicle struck by a bullet in the incident. The woman was shot at 6:32 p.m. just about 15 hours after a 19-year-old man from Urbana was wounded while driving southbound a mile north of 111th Street, the newspaper reported.

Both gunshot victims are expected to survive. The I-57 was closed for hours while police investigated.

Anyone with information about either shooting is urged to call state police at (847) 294-4400.
This isn’t the first time commuters have been wounded in an I-57 shooting.

In February, a 15-year-old boy and a 12-year-old boy were among the victims wounded in an afternoon shooting on I-57 near the 127th Street exit in south suburban Calumet Park. That shooting left a 38-year-old man is in critical condition. Several hours later that same day, a female postal worker was shot and killed on I-57 near Oak Forest in the inbound lanes on the interstate near Cicero Avenue.

In October, two men were killed in an I-57 shooting near Calumet Park near 123rd Street. That shooting followed one in September on the I-57 near 99th and Halsted that reportedly left two people injured.

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