2 fatally shot inside car in Belmont Cragin after argument with another driver, Chicago police say

A 32-year-old man and a 31-year-old lady have been touring in a automobile within the 2500-block of North Lamon Avenue at about 5:49 a.m. when police mentioned somebody driving in entrance of them stepped out and approached them.

Police mentioned the shooter was within the entrance automobile, stopping it in the course of the road and getting out to confront these behind him.

“I heard the primary couple of photographs,” mentioned Jonathan, a witness who most popular to stay nameless. “And I had my son sleeping proper subsequent to me. My first intuition was, OK, I do not know the place they’re coming from, so I went in direction of my son to place my physique over my son trigger I am by the window so in case of any bullets flying in.”

Jonathan mentioned he and his neighbors heard a verbal argument between who they consider was the shooter and the victims simply earlier than the primary gunshots have been fired.

“It was an precise SUV, tinted home windows. We did not see the one who shot the gun,” Jonathan mentioned. “We simply noticed him, he was already going. However neighbors mentioned the shooter went in direction of Diversey after which got here again round, simply to in all probability double verify that they have been useless or not.”

The bullet-riddled automobile sat on the street for hours as police investigated.

The taking pictures has left neighbors horrified. Longtime resident Juan Rodriguez mentioned the gunfire is nothing new.

“This is not the primary time it occurs round right here,” he mentioned. “We have been getting increasingly more gunshots, often at 3 o’clock within the morning. By no means at 6 o’clock within the morning.”

“That is so scary, like I am simply shocked,” neighbor Annette Vega mentioned. “I imply I am preparing for work and I am simply seeing all of this and I am identical to you are not secure wherever, not even at 5 within the morning.”

The taking pictures occurred instantly throughout from Beginning Level Group Church.

“We have seen cases like this in our neighborhood shut by,” Pastor Jonathan De La O mentioned. “Not this shut, however shut by.”
Rosario Villalobos, a member of Alliance Native Service Group, a neighborhood non-profit that gives companies to those that are impacted by gun violence in Belmont Cragin, walked the neighborhood after the taking pictures.

“It is simply loopy. It is getting out of hand,” Villalobos mentioned, “We’d like an enormous change. We have to begin coming collectively as a neighborhood, as a result of I believe that is what’s misplaced.”

Police canvassed the neighborhood for witnesses and video. To date, the motive is unclear.

“If it was street rage, it simply teaches you simply do not argue with anyone, simply maintain going,” Vega mentioned.

Nobody is in custody and Space 5 detectives are investigating. Police are actively searching for the assistance of these within the neighborhood the place the taking pictures occurred.

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