Dec. 10--A boy and a girl, both 15, were shot Tuesday morning as they waited to board a CTA bus on the Near West Side, among at least eight people shot in the city since about 8 a.m., according to police.
The teens were standing outside the bus on Jackson Boulevard, just west of Western Avenue, about 9:50 a.m. when someone started shooting in their direction, police said. The westbound No. 126/Jackson bus was stopped at the intersection when a shooting was reported, said CTA spokeswoman Catherine Hosinski, who said she was not aware of anyone on the bus being injured.
The boy was shot in the chest and taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County. The girl was taken to the same hospital with gunshot wounds to the arm and the leg. Both teens were reported as stable.
Police closed Jackson after the shooting while investigators took pictures, swept puddles and rifled through garbage cans looking for evidence. Buses were rerouted in the area during the investigation.
Three women tried to leave the bus after police had set up the crime scene. Police thought they tried to walk through the crime scene, but when police found out they had left the bus, they directed them back on.
"Take a walk back to the bus," a supervisor told them.
Across the street, a group of teens argued back and forth, looking like they were ready to fight.
"One of them (is) scared and the other glad for it," a man near the crime scene remarked.
As they were yelling, one of the young men ran to a fence, grabbed a chunk of rock, ran back to the group and swung it at someone. He appeared to only strike a glancing blow, and the group dispersed not long afterward.
In other shootings:
A little before 6:30 p.m. in the West Pullman neighborhood, an 18-year-old man suffered two gunshot wounds to the leg in the 12200 block of South Emerald Avenue, police said. The man was getting out of his car when someone came up and shot him with a handgun, then fled on foot.
About 5:10 p.m. in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, a 23-year-old man was shot in both arms, police said. The man walked into the Chicago Lawn Police District and told officers he was shot in the 5900 block of South Spaulding Avenue. His condition was stabilized at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
In the Little Village neighborhood, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the 2900 block of West 25th Place, police said. The boy was standing on the street when a vehicle pulled up and someone got out and fired several shots at the boy, hitting him, then got back in the vehicle and left, police said. The boy's condition was stabilized at Mount Sinai Hospital, police said.
In an unrelated shooting late Tuesday morning, a 24-year-old man was shot in the stomach in the 10400 block of South Wabash Avenue about 10:40 a.m., police said. The man's condition was stabilized at Advocate Christ Medical Center.
Attackers may have been seen fleeing the area in a white vehicle, police said.
A man was seriously wounded in a drive-by shooting across the street from Truman College in the Uptown neighborhood Tuesday morning, according to police.
The man was hit in the head about 10 a.m. in the 1100 block of West Wilson Avenue, police said.
He was taken in critical condition to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, according to Chicago police news affairs, which said the man was apparently not the intended target.
Earlier on the South Side, about 8:25 a.m., a 29-year-old man was shot in the 7100 block of South Cyril Avenue, near 71st Street and Jeffery Boulevard.
He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with two leg wounds, police said, and his condition was stabilized.
Two people were taken into custody and a weapon was recovered, police said.
Tribune reporter Liam Ford contributed
