Bullet Fragments Strike Evanston Woman In Face In 2nd Shooting In 6 Hours On Same Block

EVANSTON, IL — An Evanston woman was hospitalized after she was struck in the face by bullet fragments Tuesday night, police said.

It was the second shooting in about six hours to take place outside the same home in the 1800 block of Madison Street.

In the first instance, someone pulled out of an alley and started shooting shortly after 3 p.m., firing more than a dozen shots from a car. No injuries were reported.

Officers were called back to the block shortly after 9 p.m. by a report that a woman had just been shot.

Police determined she had been sitting in a parked car at the time of the shooting with an 18-year-old woman and a 15-year-old girl, who both also live in Evanston.

They noticed a suspicious car nearby and tried to leave. But that car stopped, two people got out, and at least one of them opened fire at the woman and her teenaged companions, police said.

Investigators are not sure if anyone in the car was the intended target.

Evanston Fire Department personnel took the woman to a local hospital for treatment of her injuries. She remained there Wednesday morning, her condition described as stable.

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No one is in custody in connection with the shooting, and police have yet to release any descriptions of the shooters or their vehicles.

Cmdr. Ryan Glew said investigators have yet to determine if the vehicle involved in the second shooting was the same as the first. But, the investigation suggests, "the location of this shooting was likely not random."