from the city’s West Side were standing between two crowds near the Chicago Cultural Center when an assailant wearing all black with a mask fired multiple times and hit them in the legs and arms, police said.Scroll the map to see where each incident occurred. Click on the markers for more information.
At 10 p.m., 28-year-old Marvin Benites, of Plano, was seen “jumping up and down” on CTA property at 100 N. Wabash Ave., where police were handling “disorderly” crowds. When officers told him to leave he allegedly refused and was booked and taken into custody.At 11:20 p.m.
Four teens, including a 19-year old, two 18-year-olds and a 17-year-old were seen around a marked police car. After they appeared to look inside it, officers worried the car might be burglarized, approached the four, who ran south on Garland to Washington and Madison causing motorists to take “evasive action” to avoid hitting them, a report said.A group of young adults and juveniles dance on the roofs of vehicles in the streets of downtown Chicago the night of April 15, 2023.
The officers who responded focused on containing the crowd of hundreds instead of moving into the fray, Ald. Brian Hopkins, 2nd, previously said. The strategy allowed the gathering to continue, he said.