Bad scene at Wilson and Broadway. Keep checking the Uptown Crime Blotter for updates.Craig Gernhardt tells us:
9:19 PM: Scanner reports of multiple calls. Wilson and Broadway. Two people shot.
Police are starting a a man hunt. (May 21, 2008 9:25 PM)
Victims are in critical condition. Offenders ran to Magnolia.Broadway is closed at Sunnyside to Wilson. (May 21, 2008 9:27 PM)
4543 North Broadway is ground zero. (May 21, 2008 9:28 PM)
One victim going to Illinois Masonic.The victim is staying on scene. (This may be a homicide?)
(May 21, 2008 9:30 PM)
Age of the offender: 16 to 19 years old. Basic description: Black male wearing a hoodie. No one is quite sure what color hoodie. (May 21, 2008 9:40 PM)
Wonderful - Great news heading into a long weekend - Just sad to see this happening more and more......Thanks for the update.
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I could hear the sirens and knew something bad was going on. It's pretty scary.
ReplyDeleteThis is a little too close for comfort for me. This is seriously scarey now.
ReplyDeleteIf the Wilson Red Line stop starts becoming a true danger zone that could be tremendously damaging to the future of this neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteBoth are dead and they both had weapons on them===== Good.
ReplyDeleteAt least it was two people who where ARMED and dangerous. Maybe there aim would not have been so good and hit an innocent passerby. Sorry for not feeling sympathy for the two pieces of crap that happened to get shot!!
Uh, the last post is not helpful here. It is never a good thing for someone to be murdered in our neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you have some perverse hope that they'll all shoot themselves to death, please do realize that there's a virtually unexhaustable supply of perps and victims.
I can't tell if this is the same shooting or not. It says there was a drive-by shooting on the 1100 block of Wilson at 9:15, but our local guys are putting it at 4547 Broadway, and it seems like it was all on foot.
ReplyDeleteThe Trib says:
Two people were wounded in an apparent drive-by shooting Wednesday night outside Truman College on Chicago's North Side, police said.
The shooting happened about 9:15 p.m. in the 1100 block of West Wilson Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood.
Further details were not immediately available.
10:56. You're right about the unlimited supply, but it sure doesn't hurt. Now if something could be done about these buildings...
ReplyDeleteI'll take UU and Uptown Crime Blotter's word before the Tribune's.
ReplyDeleteTo the Tribunes credit there was quite a bit of false information being relayed to the Police on this incident. There was a mention of a Maroon car being driven by a black female with red hair, having dropped off the offenders.
ReplyDeleteThis could be the gun delivery and pick-up vehicle. It is common in these gang shootings. Meaning this was a planned hit.
The Tribune just updated it slightly:
ReplyDeleteOne person was killed and another critically wounded in an apparent drive-by shooting Wednesday night near Truman College on Chicago's North Side, officials said.
The shooting occurred about 9:15 p.m. at Wilson Avenue and Broadway in the Uptown neighborhood.
One of the two victims was dead on the scene, said Larry Langford, a Chicago Fire Department spokesman. The other victim was taken in critical condition to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, he said.
Chicago police could not provide further details.
Well not to worry. In the next year we will have a CTA Park-and-Ride facility built with our TIF tax dollars for the CUBS.
ReplyDeleteAs soon as some drunk, suburban baseball fan gets his brains blown out by these gangbangers, the Mayor and media will suddenly get religion and denounce this gang activity as unacceptable. Only then will the city devote the resources and change its policing policies to erradicate the gangs that now they just temporarily push from area of Uptown to the next.
Until then, we locals are just expendable fodder in the crossfire. After all, as they say, "But where would they go, if not Uptown?" God forbid, under the Section 8 voucher program they might move (Gasp!) into their neighborhood.
I just checked the Trib site to see the report and also noted another murder in the area. Unfortunately, I usually read "northside" crime story headlines and expect to find "Uptown" in the more detailed text.
ReplyDeleteAn unidentified woman who was found in a closet at a North Side motel was beaten to death, the Cook County medical examiner's office ruled Wednesday. The woman's body was discovered about noon Tuesday in a first-floor room at the Chicago Lodge, 920 W. Foster Ave., in Uptown, after the manager went to collect a payment from a man who had been staying there.
I recorded the 5am channel 7 news and just watched it now. In the hour long broadcast they devoted about 25 seconds to the story and it took them a half hour to get to it.
ReplyDeleteThere were some new details in the report though: police are looking for a white Subaru Forester in connection with the murder. Also, another shooting occurred in the same area at 2:30am injuring an 18 year old man. No other details.
I still dont understand why a camera has not been placed at Wilson and Broadway. It has the highest crime rate around here.
ReplyDeleteI am afraid it's going to take an innicent bystander or child to be shot before we see real media and political attention. Having a gang member shot is not going to raise any red flags.
ReplyDeleteI think people are right when they say it will take a bystander or child getting shot before the media or anyone outside of Uptown (including the Mayor)cares. What should we do to not let that happen on two levels? The first level, of course, is trying to stop the violence. The second is to somehow make it impossible for any self-respecting media person or elected official to be able to say "I had no idea it was becoming so bad...what a shame and an unfortunate isolated incident." Some excuse will inevitably be made but how do we force them to chose another one?
ReplyDeleteHas anyone ever thought of getting a private security force to cruise our neighborhood? One other hood in Chicag is doing it on the Southside.
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:08---tell us more. We could raise the money. And, while we are at it, why don't we also hold an election for a "private" aldermanic office which will perform some of the duties that our official alderman is refusing to do. It is a long time until the next election.
ReplyDeleteI saw it on one of the local news stations sorry but I forgot what neighborhood it is on the Southside.
ReplyDeleteBut the funds I think came from a special tax for the neighborhood or out of a discrentiary fund.
10:42---sounds like aldermanic funds were used. No way in hell that any "special tax" or discretionary funds will be used for that purpose. That is no matter, though. We could raise some money.
ReplyDeleteI know this is the land of the free but, I think there needs to be a "no loitering" in the vicinity of wilson and broadway. I am so sick and tired of this potentially great area filled with people so bored, they have nothing to do but cause crime. Such wonderful architecture in this area...and to have a place like Popeye's infiltrate one of those buildings.....obsurd. Keep the traffic of people moving...once it stops that when fights break out. Why do people have to hang outside for hours a day?
ReplyDeleteEnough of calling them homeless. THEY ARE BUMS!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhenever they ask me if I have any change I say pocketfuls because I work for it....
No sympathy No more
I just read in the RedEye that one of the men shot was an innocent bystander that just moved to Chicago from Ghana 18 months ago. He was on his way home from Truman College when caught in the crossfire.
ReplyDeleteBefore the story was printed, they should have done background checks on both victims. The Red Eye made the surviving victim look and sound like a gang banger. No one reported that he lived in the community for 15 years. Never a trouble maker, Graduated from Senn High School and worked for Pizza Hut 6 years to present.And because the area was getting so bad his Mom had just moved her family 2 days earlier before the shooting. At the time of the shooting he had just left visiting Friends. He was also at the wrong place at the wrong time. We know in our community what kind of young man he is. So the tennants living in WOLCOTT PROPERTY send our prays to you and your family.
ReplyDeletelived here for 20 years it's always the same story! lets give shiller a round of thanks for keeping this neighborhood in the gutter! keeping the "hood" in neighborhood. just ask any police officer you see and they will talk for hours about her and caplin and the peoples law making it impossible to clean up this hell hole!! don't move here if you want to live a normal safe life!!
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