Midafternoon Gunfight - With Rounds Exchanged Between Multiple Suspects -- Sends An Uninvolved Woman To Hospital In Neighborhood West of LB Blvd., South of Market St (CD 8/Austin)

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Midafternoon Gunfight - With Rounds Exchanged Between Multiple Suspects -- Sends An Uninvolved Woman To Hospital In Neighborhood West of LB Blvd., South of Market St (CD 8/Austin)

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(Feb. 1, 2021) -- A gunfight at midafternoon today (Feb. 1) -- with rounds exchanged by multiple suspects -- sent an uninvolved woman to a hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds -- in the NLB neighborhood west of LB Blvd. and south of Market St. (CD 8/Austin.)

LBPD Public Information Officer Brandon Fahey says that on Feb. 1 at about 1:30 p.m. officers were sent to the 100 block of W. Plymouth St. regarding a shots call. "Through their preliminary investigation, officers determined multiple suspects exchanged gunfire and fled the scene prior to officers arriving.

"Officers later responded to a local hospital regarding a report of a gunshot victim and contacted a female adult victim who sustained non-life-threatening gunshot wounds to the lower torso during the incident. At this time, the victim is not believed to be a suspect.

"Officers located evidence, including strike marks, indicating a shooting had occurred."

As separately reported by LBREPORT.com, in January 2021 the area encompassed by CD 8 + CD 9 + CD 6 had a per capita rate of person-hit shootings exceeding the City of Chicago.