SOUTH SHORE — Shelton Watson was walking home Tuesday night on a "quiet" street in South Shore when he noticed a Chicago Police squad car parked near a crashed car at the end of his block.
He asked the officer what happened, and he told him there had been a shooting on the 7800 block of South Colfax Avenue and later, a car crash on Watson's block, the 7700 block of South Luella Avenue.
"The officer told me that he didn't know much about the shooting," Watson said.
What Watson didn't realize was the shooting hit close to home — literally. When he got to his house, Watson discovered a bullet hole in his window. The bullet shattered the storm door and damaged an interior wall.
"I went back outside and told the officer that he was mistaken. There were shots fired" right outside his front door, Watson said.
Another woman who lives on the same block as Watson said she also discovered a bullet hole in her window.
"It's quiet here but from time to time, you have an element that comes through here," said the woman, who declined to give her full name. "It's still surprising that this happened."
Watson, 51, a computer technician who has lived on the block for 17 years, agreed.
"This is a quiet neighborhood," he said. "Shootings rarely happen here."
It's "definitely" scary, Watson said of the shooting Tuesday. "You think about standing by the window."
Residents of the block said they don't think anyone who lives on the block was being targeted by the shooting.
Despite the bullet holes in their windows, Officer Jose Estrada, a Chicago Police spokesman, could only confirm the report of the shooting of a 26-year-old man on Colfax at 3:10 p.m.
Estrada told DNAinfo Chicago that their was no further information on the shooting other than what has been reported.
Watson said that some of his neighbors believe that shooting was followed by a car chase and another shooting.
"It may have started on Colfax, but it ended up here," Watson said.
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