Overview
- The shooting, reported around 9:30 p.m. Monday, unfolded in the 5500 block of Old Pearsall Road near Ray Ellison Boulevard on the Southwest Side.
- A 20-year-old woman who is about six to seven months pregnant and an 18-year-old man were struck by fragments and taken to a hospital in stable condition.
- Police say the shooter pulled up to the victims' sedan during a road-rage encounter and opened fire, hitting the pair with debris or pellets.
- Officers arrested a 30-year-old suspect and detained three people for questioning as they work to confirm the sequence of events.
- Investigators are testing whether the injuries came from birdshot, which is small-pellet shotgun ammo, or from shattered glass, and they have reported no other injuries.