A shooting near a police station Saturday afternoon in Woodlawn left two people wounded by gunfire and four officers hospitalized after they crashed while pursuing the suspected gunmen.
Someone fired shots from a car about 3:30 p.m., striking a 24-year-old man in his thigh and grazing a 28-year-old woman’s buttocks, outside the Grand Crossing District police station the 7000 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago police said in a statement.
A source told the Sun-Times that both of the people wounded were migrants. The source said it wasn’t known if the two were the targets of the shooting, or if the shooting was targeting migrants in general.
More than 17,000 migrants have been arrived Chicago since last summer, with many living at police stations across the city while awaiting more stable housing.
Responding officers located the car used in the shooting in the 5400 block of South State Street; the suspect’s car and a squad car later collided during a pursuit, police said.
Four police officers had to be extricated from the damaged squad car and were taken to hospitals for treatment, police said. Their conditions haven’t been released.
The two people who were shot were take to University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition, police said.
Two handguns were recovered from the suspects’ car and four occupants were taken into custody and charges were pending, police said.
