1 Man Dead, 1 Wounded In Shooting Near CTA Pink Line Stop

By Stephen Gossett in News on Oct 3, 2016 3:54PM

Pink Line California station / Wikipedia

A 20-year-old man was killed and another man, 24, was wounded in a shooting Sunday morning near the CTA Pink Line California station in Little Village, according to a Chicago police spokesperson.

Police responded to call of a fight at around 7:30 a.m. in the 2000 block of South California Avenue and found the two men shot when they arrived. The 20-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the neck and was pronounced dead at the scene; and the other victim was shot in the buttocks and taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital and listed in stable condition. CTA trains were bypassing the stop on Sunday morning while authorities investigated.

No one is in custody as of Monday morning, according to CPD. Neither victim was a gang member, police said.

The shooting was at least the third to happen within close proximity of a CTA stop in recent weeks. A man was shot near the Damen Blue Line station on Monday, and in mid-September another man was shot and wounded near the Belmont CTA stop.

According to the Tribune, at least 44 other people were shot over the weekend as gun violence continued remained high despite stretches of rainy autumn weather. Also among the fatalities was 17-year-old Naome Zuber, who was reportedly in a car on the way to a birthday party when she was shot and killed, in Back of the Yards.