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Gunman in Lincoln Square Shooting Wore Black Hoodie and White Mask

By Mark Schipper | January 11, 2016 5:27am
 Car crash debris was seen near the shooting scene Wednesday afternoon.
Car crash debris was seen near the shooting scene Wednesday afternoon.
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LINCOLN SQUARE — New details emerged in last week's car chase and shooting in Lincoln Square, including a chilling description of the gunman:

A man hanging out of a moving wearing a black hoodie and a white mask.

The rolling shootout on Lawrence Avenue spilled north onto a quiet side street and ended with a car crashing near Winnemac Park. Four admitted Gangster Disciples were inside the car that took on gunfire, according to a Chicago Police report of the incident. 

Around 1:50 p.m. on Jan. 6, a 26-year-old man was in a car near the corner of Bell Avenue and Argyle Street when he was shot by someone else in another car, police said at the time.

The gunman’s vehicle, a blue Honda Civic, carried two men wearing black hooded sweatshirts. The shooter wore a white mask beneath the tight hood and hung out the passenger-side window as he fired multiple rounds during an eastbound car chase on the busy artery of Lawrence Ave., according to the victims’ statement to officers.

The 26-year-old victim was hit once in back of the shoulder by a bullet while driving on Lawrence. He veered left off the busy avenue and headed north into the 4800 block of one-way Bell Avenue, where he crashed into a fence outside a residential building.

The men in the car told police the gunmen circled the block after their car crashed, which gave them enough time to free the rental car and flee to Weiss Hospital in Uptown where the victim initially was treated for a serious but non life-threatening wound. 

No one else was injured during the shooting or crash, police said.  

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