Driver injured by broken glass after shots fired on DuSable Lake Shore Drive
A woman was injured by broken glass after shots were fired at her car on DuSable Lake Shore Drive on Thursday morning.
Police said, just before 9:30 a.m., Deneisha was driving south on DuSable Lake Shore Drive when a dark-colored SUV approached the driver's side of her vehicle and someone started shooting. The driver, a woman from Evanston, said she was driving south between 18th and 26th streets when she heard gunfire.
Bullets came through the window but did not hit her.
"As soon as I passed the first ramp down there, I heard the pow pow sound," said Deneisha, who didn't want to use her last name.
She said she doesn't think she upset another driver this morning, so it wasn't road rage. She was driving behind her husband as they headed to get one of their cars fixed.
"I was just driving behind him. That's it. I was driving behind him. I had no problems with anybody on the whole drive coming over here from Evanston," she said. "I was on the phone with my friend, and I said, 'It seems like somebody just fired shots at me.'"
The shooting left three bullets holes on her driver's side door. One of the bullets could have hit her head.
"It's very scary, because, you know, when I look at where one of the gunshots went, like, if it went through, it would've been to my head," she said. "I always say that I want to make sure that I'm here, and I'm alive and well for the sake of my daughter, because I have a 6-year-old. And that's one of the main reasons why I always try not to go in any problem, or any form of beef with anybody, because I have a daughter to live for."
Daneisha was not shot, but was cut by broken glass. She was checked out by paramedics and is expected to be OK.
It was the first shooting on DuSable Lake Shore Drive this year. Last year, there were nine shootings on Lake Shore Drive, three of them fatal.
In 2021, former CPD Superintendent David Brown said police added more patrols to DuSable Lake Shore Drive. That year, there were 15 shootings, one of them was fatal.
Police declined to say if they would add more officers this year.
CBS News Chicago also asked police if they have cameras on Lake Shore Drive so they can catch the shooter. Police said that was the jurisdiction of the Office of Emergency Management and Communications. OEMC said it's the Office of Public Safety Administration's jurisdiction. CBS News Chicago submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Office of Public Safety Administration for any possible video footage of the shooting.
"I hope they find whoever did this, because they got the wrong person," Daneisha said.
No one was in custody Thursday afternoon, and no other damage was reported.
Area 3 detectives were investigating.
