Overview
- CPD dispatch records show a 4:06 a.m. 911 report of three shots near 55th Street and Cornell Avenue on Thursday, and a jogger found a 31-year-old wounded nearby at 4:54 a.m.
- Officers found the man with multiple gunshot wounds and took him to University of Chicago Hospital in critical condition, and they recovered three shell casings in the grass by the street.
- Police said the victim had a firearm and records list him as a concealed-carry license holder, and detectives are following a lead on a white Volkswagen reportedly stolen from Lincoln Park.
- In a separate case Thursday evening, two people driving in Garfield Park were shot by a gunman in a gray SUV and later died at Stroger and Mt. Sinai hospitals, and Area Four detectives opened an investigation.
- CWB Chicago linked the Hyde Park delay to the city’s September 2024 shutdown of ShotSpotter, a gunfire detection system that sends location-based alerts, a move that supporters argued once helped officers reach victims faster when 911 details were vague.