Five individuals sustained injuries on Monday afternoon during a shooting incident in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, near a senior living center. The Chicago police responded to the scene on the 700 block of East 43rd Street at 3:27 p.m., finding all victims who were then transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center, as reported by Chicago Sun-Times.
Wounded in the gunfire were an adult woman, now in serious condition after a shot to her right leg, and four others including a 35-year-old man with a left arm injury, a 44-year-old man shot in the right foot, a 39-year-old man wounded in the right arm, along with a 72-year-old woman who was shot in the left shoulder – the latter four being listed in good condition. The shooting unfolded near the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Center and the Judge Slater Apartments, which cater to senior residents, said the Sun-Times.
Details regarding the shooting remain scant, as no arrests had been made by Monday evening, and the Chicago Housing Authority had yet to comment on the incident, the standoff left the area near the senior apartments cordoned off while the investigation continued. Addressing another aspect of the story, CBS Chicago noted witnesses expressed uncertainty about the drive-by shooting's intended target.
A local senior residence's employee, DeAndre Moore shared his heightened concern for those he knows in the affected area. "I'm just on my way home, and I saw this, and I'm like, oh wow — just incredible," Moore told CBS Chicago, he continued, "I haven't really got off work, good enough. When I saw it, I'm hoping one of my residents is OK. I work at this site and down the street, so whatever happened, I'm hoping that they're OK."
In response to the violent outbreak, community activist Ja’Mal Green is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the Bronzeville shooting, while up to 30 shell casing markers were visual evidence of the extent of the shooting, these details were provided by CBS Chicago. Echoing a sentiment of distress over the city's surge in gun violence, street pastor and victim's advocate Pastor Donovan Price lamented, "You know this is broad daylight after such a horrendous weekend with mass shootings," as obtained by CBS Chicago.
