A 28-year-old employee of Sound Bar was killed and another man was wounded when someone unleashed gunfire during a street fight early Friday outside the River North nightclub.
Just after midnight, about 15 people began brawling near the mouth of an alley in the 600 block of North Franklin, according to Chicago police.
A male in the crowd pulled out a handgun and fired several rounds, striking Thurman Bailey, 28, and a 58-year-old man, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Bailey died about 1 a.m. after being taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, police said. He lived in the Bronzeville neighborhood.
The older man brought himself to the same hospital with bullet fragments in his leg and arm, police said. He is expected to survive.
Police spokesman Hector Alfaro said the 28-year-old worked at the nightclub, while the 58-year-old “was associated with the business.”
No one has been arrested, though officers were combing through “plenty” of surveillance footage, Alfaro said.
The suspect is believed to be a male wearing a green puffy jacket and a black hat, police said.
An hour into Friday, officers spilled out underneath the Brown and Purple Line tracks on Franklin Street to roll out crime scene tape and plop down evidence markers.
About 10 shell casings were found scattered near the Ontario and Franklin intersection, located in one of the city’s heavily trafficked entertainment districts. Dozens of young adults filed out of the nightclub as it appeared to be shutting down early.
Tyler LaRiviere contributed reporting.
