LOGAN SQUARE — Neighbors are in shock after a drive-by shooting at Fullerton Avenue and Rockwell Street Thursday evening left three men wounded.
Around 9:30 p.m., two men, ages 18 and 24, were walking on the sidewalk in the 2600 block of West Fullerton Avenue across from popular dive bar Bob Inn, 2609 W. Fullerton Ave., when someone in a white van fired shots, hitting the 18-year-old in his right arm and chest and the 24-year-old in his left arm, according to police.
A 42-year-old who was driving by was also hit in his back, police said. Officers were standing guard near a cab at Fullerton and Kedzie avenues late Thursday, but would not say if it was involved in the incident, the Tribune reported.
Police could not provide a condition for any of the victims, but described them as "stable."
As of Friday morning, no one was in custody.
Carolyn Bright, 53, who lives in the apartment above resale furniture shop, Three Stars, 2600 W. Fullerton Ave., was watching TV when she heard the sounds of a car screening and "pow pow pow pow."
"It wasn't like 1, 2, 3 or 4 shots. It was maybe 10 shots," Bright said, adding that it was so loud that "it was like I was outside with them."
Bright, 53, peeked through the blinds and saw a parked car waiting in the alley on the other side of the complex that houses Dunkin Donuts, 2565 W. Fullerton Ave. She said the car drove off in a hurry once the other two cars drove off.
Sol Colon, 60, who lives in the same apartment building, also said she saw three cars total from her window, and one of them was waiting in the alley until shots rang out.
Colon saw a woman with blonde hair running to the parked car.
"It's crazy. Nothing like this has ever happened," said Colon, who has lived in her apartment for seven years. "I don't want to be afraid. I want to live my life like always."
Maria Arenas, owner of Three Stars, learned of the shooting from Bright, who called to tell her a bullet pierced through one of the shop's windows. On Friday morning, the shattered window was covered in plastic.
"I'm so worried about my neighborhood," said Arenas, who opened the shop about a year ago. "It could've been one of our customers or even us."
Maria Arenas pointing to where the bullet pierced her shop's window. [All photos DNAinfo/Mina Bloom]
Her husband, Martin Reyes, agreed, saying "This is scary because we have daughters and their school is not from away from where it happened."
As a lifelong Logan Square and Humboldt Park resident, Julie Rivera said shootings in the neighborhood used to be much more common, especially before the city cleaned up Haas Park.
"It's calmed down a lot around here," said the 43-year-old, who has worked at her mom's store Lulu's Botanica & Gift Shop, 2610 W. Fullerton Ave., for the past eight years.
"I didn't expect it to happen with the way the neighborhood is now. Nowhere in safe anymore in Chicago," she said.
Rivera wasn't around during the shooting and didn't notice the shattered window on her way to work Friday.
"I grew up in Humboldt Park area. I went to [Roberto] Clemente [Academy]. For me, shootings ... they don't phase me."
Ald. Joe Moreno (1st), whose ward includes the block where the shooting occurred, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The shooting occurred in the 2600 block of West Fullerton Avenue.
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