Sept. 24--A semi driver was wounded in the leg while driving on the Bishop Ford Expressway in a possible road rage shooting, one of seven people shot across Chicago overnight since Wednesday.
Someone in a black SUV opened fire on the truck driver near near Beaubien Woods around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to Illinois State Police.
He was shot in the thigh and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. His injury was not considered life-threatening, state police said.
The northbound lanes were closed while police investigated. No other details were available.
Around 11:10 p.m., a man was shot and killed in the Burnside neighborhood on the South Side.
The 48-year-old man was on the sidewalk in the 9200 block of South University Avenue when someone walked up and shot him in the chest, back, leg and face, according to Officer Hector Alfaro, a Chicago police spokesman. He was taken to Advocate Christ and pronounced dead.
Early Thursday, police cordoned off a block of University Avenue between 92nd and 93rd streets. Officers and detectives examined a silver car at the crime scene.
A woman walked up and lingered for a few moments, crying.
"He was the delivery guy," she said. "He would take me to and from work."
The woman closed her eyes, covered her face with her hand and started sobbing. "It's too much," she cried. "It's just too much."
In the hour or so after the shooting, police fielded reports of gunfire in the surrounding blocks. When a loud crack rang out north of the crime scene, a detective's head snapped up.
He paused.
"Just fireworks," he said and headed underneath the tape.
Other shootings:
-- At 9:10 p.m., a 26-year-old man was wounded in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side, Alfaro said.
The man was in an alley in the 5100 block of South Sawyer Avenue when a white SUV pulled up and someone inside fired shots, Alfaro said.
The man was shot in the groin and the left leg. A woman drove him to St. Anthony Hospital, and he was transferred to Stroger Hospital in serious but stable condition, Alfaro said.
-- At about 8:45 p.m., a 45-year-old man was shot in the University Village neighborhood, Alfaro said. The man was in a park in the 1500 block of South Loomis Street when someone rode up on a bicycle and fired shots, Alfaro said.
The man was struck in the abdomen and buttocks. He was taken to Stroger, where his condition was stabilized, Alfaro said.
-- At 7 p.m., an 18-year-old man was shot in the 7100 block of South King Drive in the Park Manor neighborhood, said Officer Veejay Zala, a police spokesman.
A red Ford Escort drove up and people inside wearing ski masks began firing, police said. The man was shot in the left arm and right leg and taken to Advocate Christ, where his condition was stabilized, Zala said.
-- At 3:45 p.m., an 18-year-old man was injured in the 5800 block of West Potomac Avenue in the Austin neighborhood, Zala said. The man was shot in the hip and taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where his condition had stabilized, police said.
-- At 11:30 a.m., a 27-year-old man was seriously wounded in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The man walked into the emergency room of Roseland Community Hospital and told the staff he had been shot in the 11800 block of South Harvard Avenue, said Officer Jose Estrada, a police spokesman.
The man had a gunshot wound to the lower back and was in serious condition, Estrada said.
