A Lakeview shooting left a 72-year-old woman injured Thursday. Chicago police said she was shot while walking along Broadway near Briar Place.
CHICAGO -- Two-toned police tape blocked off a busy neighborhood block on Chicago's North Side Thursday after a 72-year-old woman was shot while walking down the sidewalk.
"I came out and saw her lying there," she said."I went down and, at the time, I didn't know it was her niece cinching her leg with a hoodie."While the woman who'd been shot needed medical attention, she said her family members began to panic. "They were walking in this direction and I assumed she was in front of the stroller. It hit her upper left thigh. Kind of more glad it hit her because it looked like when she was on the ground the stroller was right behind her," Kurtz said.
"The position from where she was standing or would have been standing -- there was really no other path the bullet could have traveled except for straight through here," said Eugene Bruber, an employee at Johnny Sprockets. I was driving on Briar near Broadway returning to my office minutes after today's shooting and was on scene shortly after the victim was placed in the ambulance. I saw the anguish and anger I felt reflected in the faces of witnesses and others in the vicinity. The police presence after the incident was swift and significant. I am confident that with assistance of witnesses and video from nearby security cameras, the CPD will work diligently to solve these two shootings.
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