Early morning incident: Attacker shoots four people in Chicago subway
02.09.2024, 23:21 Listen to article
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In Forest Park, a suburb of Chicago, the police received an emergency call: an unknown person had allegedly shot three people in a subway. At the scene, the officers found four victims. The perpetrator initially fled, but later the handcuffs clicked.
Four people were shot dead in a subway on the outskirts of the US metropolis of Chicago. The incident occurred early in the morning in a subway in the suburb of Forest Park, west of Chicago, local police said. A suspect was arrested and a weapon was confiscated. There are no other threats. The police have not yet provided any information on the background to the crime.
According to ABC7, the police received an emergency call at 5:27 a.m. (local time). They were informed that three people had been shot. Officers found four victims on the scene. Three were dead, one seriously injured. The seriously injured person was taken to Loyola University Medical Center, where he later died. Police have not yet announced the identity of the victims. The shots are said to have been fired in two carriages of the train, police said in a press release.
The shooter fled the scene. However, the police were able to create a description of the perpetrator based on the surveillance camera videos. A suspect was later arrested on a train on another line. A weapon was found on him, reported NBC Chicago. The trains on the line are now running again, but the Forest Park station is closed.
Gun attacks are part of everyday life in the USA. In Chicago alone, according to the US television channel CBS, at least three other people were shot and at least ten were injured by gunfire in various other incidents in addition to this incident.
