CHICAGO (WLS) — A 17-year-old boy was shot close to a college on Chicago’s Southeast Facet Tuesday afternoon, Chicago police stated.
The capturing occurred round 4:15 p.m., simply after class was let loose at Chicago Vocational Excessive Faculty within the Calumet Heights neighborhood.
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“All of the infants had been out right here, and I simply was praying nobody was damage,” stated a feminine witness, who didn’t wish to present her face. “They had been getting out of college, and so they had been arguing and combating.”
The pictures had been fired throughout a big combat at Jesse Owens Park close to East 87th Avenue and South Jeffery Boulevard, throughout the road from the college.
“Subsequent factor you understand, not less than 20 gunshots got here out,” the feminine witness stated. “The youngsters, they simply began operating. They only all scattered.”
Chicago police say the teenager, who attends the close by Sullivan Home Excessive Faculty, was on the sidewalk when a van pulled up, and somebody inside began capturing.
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“I noticed him when he pulled the gun out and began capturing on the air, into the group,” stated a male witness, who additionally did to not present his face.
The sufferer, shot within the buttocks, was taken to Comer Kids’s Hospital in truthful situation.
Chicago police didn’t instantly say if anybody was in custody or present an outline of the suspect automobile.
“It is simply horrible. I am, like, shaking. I am nervous proper now, as a result of I’ve by no means seen anybody shot upfront like that,” the male witness stated.
No CVS college students or workers had been concerned, college officers stated.
ABC7 reached out to Sullivan Home Excessive Faculty for remark, however didn’t instantly hear again.
Space Two detectives are investigating.
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