Monday, November 2, 2009

Police chase ends in crash, four in custody

Sun-Times:
Four suspects wanted for firing shots from a vehicle are in custody after leading police on a chase on the Dan Ryan Expressway that ended in a crash on the South Side early Monday.

At 1:45 a.m., Targeted Response Unit officers were in the 5100 block of South Union Avenue on a routine patrol when they heard shots fired from a vehicle, according to a statement from Chicago police News Affairs.

The vehicle from which the shots were fired fled the scene and the officers pursued the vehicle onto the Dan Ryan Expressway. The suspects took the West 79th Street exit and and crashed in the 7900 block of South Lafayette. Four people were arrested and taken to Saint Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center with minor injuries, the statement said.
More from the Tribune:
The sequence of events began about 1:45 a.m. when officers on routine patrol near 5100 S. Union Ave. heard shots and gave chase to a fleeing car they identified as their source, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro.

As the car sped away, another car trying to get out of the way crashed into a viaduct at 5100 S. Princeton Avenue. Police called the crash "an unrelated incident," but an officer on the scene said there was a connection. Two men inside that car were taken to Stroger Hospital. Their conditions were not available.

A relative of one of the victims in the second car said they were driving away from a party near 51st and Union after shots were fired there. It wasn't clear if those were the shots that police had heard. One of the victims was thrown from the car and suffered massive head injuries and a broken pelvis, the relative said. The second victim was reported as saying he had no feeling in his legs.

The police chase continued on the Dan Ryan Expressway, with police observing a gun thrown out of the car in front of them, according to one report. That weapon was later recovered near 71st Street.
Sounds real nasty! And found this thru the 6th Ward EveryBlock feed.

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