Chicago shooting: CCL holder fires back at gunman who shot CTA employee in Archer Heights

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Chicago shooting: CCL holder fires back at gunman who shot CTA employee in Archer Heights

 

 

Concealed Carry License holder fired back at a gunman who shot a CTA bus supervisor on the city's Southwest Side on Tuesday afternoon, officials said.

 

Chicago police said the drive-by shooting happened around 2 p.m. in the Archer Heights neighborhood. Chopper 7 was over the scene, where police squad cars surrounded a CTA bus under an overpass near West 47th Street and South Archer Avenue.

 

7 spoke with Lorenzo Hernandez, who was caught in the crossfire while heading to work in his SUV. He is thankful to be alive after a bullet from the shooting, still lodged in his SUV, stopped short of hitting him and a nearby tow truck driver.

 

Hernandez, who spoke to ABC7 in Spanish through a translator, said he was sitting at the 47th and Archer when he saw a crash involving a CTA bus and at least four other vehicles.

 

"I saw the bus crash happen as I was stopped at the light," Hernandez said.

 

Hernandez said after the crash, more than a dozen people got out of the bus and impacted vehicles when someone inside a white Dodge Durango shot at them.

 

Police said one of the bullets hit the CTA bus supervisor, a 55-year-old man, who was responding to the crash.

 

Hernandez was sitting in the driver's seat when one bullet hit his SUV, stopping short of hitting him. The engine blocked the bullet from continuing through.

 

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