Berwyn Police Blotter
Really poor aim
October 19, 2009, 8:36 PM
Callers reported hearing shots fired in the 6400 block of 16th, upon which, they said, multiple male teens fled in different directions. Witnesses told officers two groups of male Hispanic teens fought on the block. Police recovered seven shell casings. The victim, a 19-year-old male with a streetgang name of “Casper”, was later located at Loyola medical center with a gunshot wound that traveled in one side of his left leg and out the other. The victim told police he and three companions were driving in Cicero around 6 PM when they pulled in front of a house on 59th* “near Paisan’s” and asked the males they encountered there whether they “gangbang”. The victim said the subjects responded to the inquiry by throwing a bottle at the car and yelling the slogan of a well-known street gang. Two hours later, while westbound on 16th, the victim and his companions spotted the same teens they had seen earlier, so they stopped to confront them. A fight began, during which one teen pulled out a gun and fired six to seven shots, only one of which struck the victim. The shooter was described as male Hispanic with shoulder-length hair, a black hoodie, and a gold baseball cap bearing New York Yankees symbols.
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