Crime & Safety
Shots Fired Outside Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot's Home: Reports
Security officers were in an unmarked squad car outside the mayor's Logan Square home when it was struck by a bullet, reports said.
CHICAGO, IL — Authorities are investigating after shots were fired outside the home of former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot early Saturday morning, according to multiple reports citing police.
Officers assigned to a security detail outside Lightfoot's home in the 3400 block of West Wrightwood Avenue were inside an unmarked squad car around 3 a.m. when a bullet struck the car's windshield, WGN Chicago reported.
The officers didn't realize what happened until they found a bullet fragment on the car floor, reports said.
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The officers were not injured and did not return fire, according to an NBC Chicago report. A suspect has not been identified.
A spokesperson for Lightfoot told NBC Chicago the former mayor and her family were "shaken" by the incident.
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"They are grateful for the dangerous work and sacrifice of the detail officers," Lightfoot's spokeswoman Joanna Klonsky said in a statement.
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