Man Shot At In Traffic In Evergreen Park: Cops

EVERGREEN PARK, IL -- Police are trying to determine if a pattern of street crimes that occurred in Evergreen Park, Burbank and Chicago are somehow connected. All three incidents happened in rapid succession early Tuesday morning.

Evergreen Park police said that a man came to the station around 7 a.m. to report that he had been followed westbound on 87th Street by a black SUV. The SUV followed closely behind the man’s own vehicle. When the man turned south onto Kedzie Avenue, the driver of the SUV pulled up beside him. Police said the driver pointed a handgun at him and fired. The vehicle, described as a black Porsche Cayenne SUV, fled.

The man was not injured. The driver is described as an African-American male in his 20s. Evergreen Park police said the driver had a white T-shirt pulled over his face.

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In the other incidents, a Reavis High School football player was walking to football practice around 8 a.m. Tuesday, on 77th Street near Mayfield Avenue in Burbank, when he was approached by a man with a gun. When the teen wouldn’t give into the man’s demands for money, the man pistol-whipped the teen, Burbank Beat reported. The man fled in a black SUV. The teen was taken to a nearby hospital as a precaution.

Also, about an hour after the Burbank attempted robbery, a woman was reportedly pistol-whipped around 9 a.m. in the Chase Bank parking lot at 83rd and Kedzie in Chicago. The woman’s purse was snatched by a black male in his early 20s wearing a white T-shirt, who drove away in a black sedan. The woman suffered non-life-threatening head injuries.

The incidents are under investigation by police. Anyone with information about the suburban incidents is asked to contact Evergreen Park police at 708-422-2142, or, Burbank Police at 708-924-7300. Tipsters can remain anonymous.