Shooting in downtown Chicago | Leaves Gregory Crawford Dead and a woman Injured – According to police reports, two people were shot, one fatally, as they sat in their car during a gathering of hundreds of people near the Wabash Avenue Bridge in downtown Chicago early Sunday, 19th of July 2020.
Around 2:30 a.m., officers were waved down by two people in a car who needed medical assistance after being shot in the 300 block of North Wabash Avenue in the Near North neighborhood, police said. A 35-year-old Gregory Crawford of Maywood was shot once in the neck and he was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died, police said. A 25-year-old woman was shot twice in the left arm and taken to Northwestern where she had been listed in good condition.
Witnesses said the shooting happened while as many as a thousand people were drinking and hanging out by the riverfront on Wacker Drive. There were four to six shots, then people started running, according to a witness who asked not to be named. No arrest have been made.