Crime & Safety
3 People Sustain Non-Life-Threatening Injuries In I-57 Shootings
The two shootings took place an hour apart from one another on Interstate 57 and resulted in three people being taken to hospitals.
CHICAGO —Three people were taken to a local hospital Sunday night after the vehicle they were traveling in on Interstate 57 was shot at by someone in a different vehicle, Illinois Police said on Monday.
The three passengers have not been identified and sustained what police characterized as non-life-threatening injuries. The shooting, which was one of two Sunday night on I-57, took place at 11:19 p.m. when someone fired a gun from a vehicle traveling south on I-57 near 119th Street, police said.
Police then responded to the report of another expressway shooting that took place nearly an hour after the first incident, the state police reported.
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The second shooting took place near Halsted Street when someone from one vehicle fired shots at the driver of another vehicle, police said. The driver who was the target of the shooting was not injured.
State police troopers shut down lanes of I-57 after each incident.
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