Chicago shooting causes crash on West Side; surveillance video shows aftermath at fast-food restaurant
Within the video, you may see the victims carrying a baby to security inside a fast-food restaurant.
The crash was quick and intense.
It began simply earlier than 1 p.m. Sunday within the 100-block of N. Kedzie Avenue, and ended within the 3200-block of W. Chicago Avenue, in keeping with police.
Surveillance cameras at a West Aspect Popeyes captured the just about airborne impression as two vehicles collide from reverse instructions.
Seconds earlier than the crash, Popeye’s staff mentioned they heard rounds of gunshots.
“My staff, as quickly as they heard that, my supervisor instructed them to go decrease to verify to be secure so they do not get shot as a result of they do not know the place the photographs have been coming from,” mentioned the shop’s basic supervisor, Lario Arrizai.
Police mentioned somebody on this black BMW SUV was firing out the sunroof, and not less than two of these bullets hit a person and a girl inside a black sedan.
A black automobile then skidded off the highway and careened into one other automobile, narrowly lacking a line of vehicles within the drive-thru.
That is whenever you see a girl seize a baby from the backseat of the car and a person limping alongside them into the restaurant.
“They’ve a baby and the kid was screaming as a result of they have been afraid one thing was going to occur to her mother as a result of your mother was crying,” Arriazi mentioned. “The mother acquired shot in her leg.”
Popeyes staff known as 911 and because the injured pair headed for the hospital, police shut down the fast-food retailer for hours to evaluate the video repeatedly whereas staff needed to clear blood from the capturing that left them feeling uneasy and unsafe at work.
Each victims have been taken to Stroger Hospital, initially reported in critical situation.
Nobody is in custody and space detectives are investigating.
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