'Ghost Gun' Found In Bullet-Riddled Car Where 2 Were Shot: COPS

ALSIP, IL — A man and a woman from Robbins are recovering in the hospital after both were found shot in their car Wednesday afternoon. Police are calling the shooting an isolated incident. A ghost gun was also found in their wounded man’s bullet-riddled car, Alsip police said.

Alsip police swarmed the area of 123rd Street and Springfield Avenue around 4:40 p.m. for a report of gunfire. Officers found more than a dozen spent .40- and .45-caliber casings at 123rd Street at Hamlin and Springfield avenues. No injured persons were found at the scene.

Witnesses described another vehicle possibly involved in the shooting, a gold Chevy Cruz with tinted windows.

Around the same time, Oak Lawn police responded to a call of a vehicle facing the wrong direction near 105th Street and Pulaski Road. Oak Lawn officers found a man and woman in their 20s sitting in a Ford Fusion riddled with seven bullet holes, who had apparently tried to drive to the hospital. Both had suffered non-life threatening gunshot wounds to the chest and stomach, police said. The man and women were transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center.

The Oak Lawn officers recovered a loaded 9mm handgun under the Ford Fusion’s driver's seat, described it as a “ghost gun” because it had no serial number, making it untraceable, police said. Neither had a license to own nor carry a firearm.

The wounded man had an active warrant for resisting arrest, and four prior arrests, police said. The woman has no criminal background.

Alsip Police believe this to be an isolated incident. No other injuries were reported.

The investigation continues. Anyone who saw or has information about the shooting is asked to call the Alsip Police Department at 708-385-6902, extension 272.