Man Killed, Woman Injured in Downtown Chicago Shooting – Two people shot, one fatally, as they sat in their car amid a gathering of hundreds of people near the Wabash Avenue Bridge in downtown Chicago early Sunday, according to police and witnesses.
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 man 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. The man was later was identified as Gregory Crawford, of Maywood, according to the medical examiner’s office.
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.
We express our sympathy and deepest condolences to the Victim’s family today and in the days, weeks, months, and years that are to come as they cope with his passing. May his soul rest in peace.