Lakeview shooting: Woman, 72, shot in leg while walking on sidewalk, Chicago police say

“It’s actually horrifying. Simply actually creepy,” mentioned Grace Brasey, who works close by. “I reside actually shut by as properly and simply the idea of being shot at 2 p.m. is a bit alarming.”

Someplace alongside the stretch of sidewalk outdoors quaint cafes and outlets within the 3100-block of North Broadway within the metropolis’s Lakeview neighborhood, Chicago police mentioned somebody shot the suburban lady who was on a day stroll along with her household.

“We heard the shot, it was loud,” mentioned witness Trisha Kurtz.

The unmistakable pop of gunfire despatched Kurtz operating from the again of a neighboring bike store.

“I got here out and noticed her mendacity there,” she mentioned. “I went down and, on the time, I did not realize it was her niece cinching her leg with a hoodie.”

Skilled in first assist, Kurtz stepped in to assist.

Whereas the lady who’d been shot wanted medical consideration, she mentioned her members of the family started to panic.

“They appeared actually calm at first and type of once I received there, relaxed a bit bit and discovered she’s been shot! It is a factor that is occurring. They had been beginning to get upset, the child was beginning to get upset,” Kurtz recalled.

If the bullet struck just some inches over, Kurtz mentioned, the little boy within the stroller could have been hit.

“They had been strolling on this course and I assumed she was in entrance of the stroller. It hit her higher left thigh. Sort of extra glad it hit her as a result of it appeared like when she was on the bottom the stroller was proper behind her,” Kurtz mentioned.

The girl sustained a gunshot wound to the higher thigh and was transported to Illinois Masonic Hospital in good situation.

Staff at Johnny Sprockets Bike Store assume the bullet got here from the north and whizzed proper previous their entrance window.

“The place from the place she was standing or would have been standing — there was actually no different path the bullet may have traveled apart from straight by right here,” mentioned Eugene Bruber, an worker at Johnny Sprockets.

The second Lakeview capturing within the span of some days occurred instantly in entrance of the neighborhood’s Chamber of Commerce.

“Its simply so near what occurred with them worker from Sunday night time,” mentioned Maureen Martino, govt director of the Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce.

Investigators are nonetheless attempting to trace down the one who murdered Hermilo Beltran, a father of two youngsters, as he confirmed up for work on the Comfortable Camper restaurant on North Clark St. late Sunday night time.

Police reported no arrests in both capturing.

“South and West Aspect has been placing up with this for manner too lengthy. The North Aspect must step up and so they must be vocal. All of us want to come back as a metropolis collectively and cease this,” Martino mentioned.