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Edgewater Shooting Monday Afternoon Sends Residents Running For Cover

December 16, 2014  /  By

gunOn Monday afternoon, as neighborhood residents walked their usual path from the busy Thorndale Red Line to get home for the evening, shots rang out at 3;45 p.m. It caused people to run for their lives not knowing where the shots were being fired. Many ducked into nearby businesses for cover. Only 45 minutes earlier, Swift Elementary students were recessed from school.

The shooting occurred at Broadway and Thorndale. According to a statement by Alderman Harry Osterman police were on the scene within minutes. His office said, “The Chicago Police Department is reviewing video footage as well as interviewing witnesses.  Additional police officers have been deployed to this area. Once I have more information, I will share it with the community in Friday’s newsletter.”

The incident left the area’s residents frazzled. One EVB reader who wishes to remain anonymous said, ” I heard shots, then police cars. I looked out the window and saw people running, but just wasn’t sure what was going on.”

There were no injuries and no arrests have been made in this latest shooting. It is currently under investigation by Chicago police. If you have any information pertaining to this incident, please contact Marko Zaric at 773-784-5277 or Marko@48thward.org.

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  • Van DeLisle

    Are we EVER gonna get serious about our gun problem?

    • Jim Olson

      Nope. And it is unpatriotic, unAmerican and unconstitutional of you to question the NRA and its governmental policy.

      • richwolf

        I’m pretty sure most of the people toting…and shooting…guns around the Thorndale and Broadway intersection aren’t NRA members or supporters. By all means, challenge the NRA…I support your efforts to have your voice heard and I’ll defend you against those who question your patriotism. But Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country…and it seems to have made pretty much zero impact on the apparent drug war that’s going on in the neighborhood.You have a bunch of gang-bangers who seem determined to kill one another over turf…those folks really don’t care what position the NRA takes.

        • Josh Soffer

          That’s right, they just want to make sure they have an easy supply of weapons. OF course, gun control in Chicago but not 50 miles away isn’t much of a strain on supply. I’m not saying country-wide gun-control legislation would reduce the murder rate in Chicago. I just don’t know, because it’s not been tried.

    • jay campbell

      Gang problem? Odds are 100% the gun was illegal and the person holding it was not legally allowed to. We have a people problem when someone feels no concern about doing something like this.

      • Scott Reichelsdorf

        Then get the guns away from people until they learn !

      • jon

        But, odds are 100% of those guns were originally purchased legally. Then they were sold illegally because the law doesn’t require people to verify they still own the gun they purchased. Maybe people should be required to get yearly inceptions for their gun to prove they still own them

    • Sonja Foxe

      ever hear of the nra?

  • John

    Is it too much to ask for a permanent police presence at the Thorndale El stop? How about publishing the pictures of known gang members, so that at least we know what these monsters look like? I mean, don’t the cops have a clue who these idiots are? I am guessing Gansta Disciples? Do the cops even care?

    • Luc

      I am sure there are contact cards made w CPD as in all districts when they encounter suspected individuals w gang ties. I would encourage that whole area to attend CAPS meetings and request a meeting w the Commander that should be 24th district.

  • Clifton Johnson

    IAM waiting on my gun card lsgally cj

  • richwolf

    We have a real gang problem here…and while I appreciate alderman Ostermann’s candor, I’m really getting fed up reading about gang-related shootings in Edgewater. I wonder what it’s going to take to get the authorities to crack down on what, so far as I can tell, appears to be a drug turf war. One of the things I love about this area is all the young families I see every day. I’m now praying that someone’s child isn’t caught in the crossfire between gangbangers who have little regard for who gets in the way of their respective targets. I’m not sure what the solution to this problem is…but whatever we’ve got going on now, I don’t think it’s working very well.

    • Scott Reichelsdorf

      If these things were happening on Deerpath rd in Lake Forest you bet it would stop…

      • Josh Soffer

        Easier to buy what you want at Lake Forest college.

    • Chgosaint

      Left that neighborhood – I can point out the drug dealers at Thorndale and Winthrop just from walking by every day. Somehow the cops can’t seem to see them, or they just don’t care.

  • jpc

    It doesn’t matter how strict Chicago’s gun laws are, so long as legal gun purchasers in the suburbs, Indiana, and Mississippi provide them to the local gangs, and the local gangs have cause to shoot each other, we’re going to have this problem. http://www.cityofchicago.org/dam/city/depts/mayor/Press%20Room/Press%20Releases/2014/May/05.27.14TracingGuns.pdf

    • richwolf

      You shared a great link. Thank you. I’m certainly no apologist for gun owners (I have never owned a gun nor do I have any desire whatsoever to own one)…nor am I even close to being a legal expert…but I couldn’t help thinking, as I was reading that report, that a reasonable solution would be to simply hold the so-called straw purchasers directly responsible, whether through neglect or intent, for any crimes committed with the firearms they buy. I’d have to think even NRAers would be okay with that. The report continually refers to gun trafficking through straw purchases as…well…illegal. But I also got the sense, from the report, that there is no national will to strictly enforce federal law. So I say, if you’re a straw purchaser and a gun you buy ends up being used in a crime, then you get a good long jail sentence…even if it’s six or twenty years after the fact. I have friends that abhor guns and friends who love them…but all my gun-loving friends are serious experts in gun law and safety and, while I can’t speak for them, I don’t think they’d mind any law that would strictly regulate the resale of firearms so-as-to make certain that the new owners were equally responsible.



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