CHICAGO (WLS) — An Evanston woman’s car was shot at multiple times on South DuSable Lake Shore Drive Thursday morning, Chicago police said.
A 34-year-old woman was driving south in the 2000-block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive about 9:20 a.m., near the South Loop, when a dark-colored SUV approached the driver’s side of her vehicle, police said.
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Someone inside the SUV opened fire, hitting the woman’s white Mercedes Benz, police said.
The suspect vehicle continued south.
No injuries were reported, but the woman’s car has bullet holes in the windows.
No other vehicles were damaged, police said.
The woman said she was driving from the north suburbs to a repair shop, when the shooting took place near the Interstate 55 interchange.
“As soon as I passed the first ramp down there, I heard the ‘pow, pow’ sound. I was on the phone with my friend, and I said, ‘it seems like somebody just fired shots at me.’ I said, ‘let me call my husband.’ I called him, and I pulled over, and that was when I realized somebody fired three shots in my car,” Deneisha said. “When I looked to the left, I realized it was a hole in the glass.”
She said she was just inches away from being seriously hurt.
“It’s very scary because when I look at where one of the gunshots went, if it went through it would’ve been to my head,” Deneisha said.
She is shaken by the shooting, and wonders why it happened. She said there was no road rage involved.
“I don’t know why they’d fire shots at me. It definitely had to be the wrong person because I don’t have any problems with anybody,” Deneisha said.
No one was in custody later Thursday morning.
Area Three detectives are investigating.
While Chicago police don’t track shootings on local roadways, the ABC7 Chicago Data Team analysis of Illinois State Police data shows there have been 70 expressway shootings in the past 12 months in Cook County.
That is a 36% decrease in expressway shootings, compared to the average of the prior three years.
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