Woman Wounded In Dan Ryan Expressway Shooting
CHICAGO (CBS) -- An 18-year-old woman was shot on the Dan Ryan Expressway early Thursday morning, after getting into an argument with someone in another vehicle.
Illinois State Police shut down the outbound lanes of the expressway for more than an hour while they investigated and searched for evidence, but no shell casings were found.
Police said the woman was a passenger in a van whose occupants got into an argument with someone in a blue car at a gas station near 79th Street and Lafayette Avenue around 2:20 a.m. The victims then drove onto the southbound lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway.
The blue car followed them, and someone inside fired multiple shots at the victims' vehicle between 83rd and 95th streets. The 18-year-old woman was shot in the chest. The blue car fled the scene and exited the expressway, police said.
The driver of the van took the woman to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, and she later was transferred to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Police said her injuries were not life-threatening. No one else was wounded in the shooting.