A house party was cut short early Thursday after someone outside opened fire and hit two people in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.
A 20-year-old man and 42-year-old woman were at a large gathering at a residence in the 11700 block of South Princeton Avenue when a fight broke out around midnight. Shortly afterward, at least one person fired shots, and the bullets struck both the man and the woman while they were inside, according to Chicago police.
The man was shot about four to five times and wounded in the chest, arm and hand, while the woman suffered a gunshot wound to her face, police said. Both were taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where their conditions were stabilized.
No one is in custody, but a source said a weapon was recovered at the scene.
Officers were investigating whether someone returned fire, as far-flung bullet holes were found in objects inside the crime scene, the source said. One sedan sat on the opposite side of the street and about two houses north of the residence where the two people were shot. A jagged hole marred the vehicle’s rear window, and an officer informed the woman waiting in the driver’s seat that her car was now a crime scene.
The pale, two-story house had officers stationed on its front lawn and moving up and down its stairwell inside. One pointed out shell casings and live rounds on the front porch and near the entrance.
On West 119th Street, a woman drove up to the intersection and rolled down the window upon seeing the police activity. “She was standing out here somewhere,” she said in a grim tone to the man sitting next to her in the car. They remained stopped at that intersection, watching the scene from half a block away.
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