Chicago, Illinois: One Killed, Two Wounded in North Lawndale Shooting on Ogden Avenue

A man was killed and two other people were wounded in a shooting in the North Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago's West Side on Saturday evening, October 31, Chicago police said. The three people were shot along West Ogden Avenue, and the shooting was reported on Saturday night by WLS-TV, WGN-TV, WMAQ-TV and the Chicago Sun-Times, all carrying the police account.

What police said happened

Police said two people exited a vehicle and opened fire on three people along West Ogden Avenue. One man was killed in the shooting. A second man was critically injured. A woman was reported in good condition. That short account is the full official picture published on Saturday night: a vehicle, two people who got out of it, three people shot on the avenue, and one of them dead.

The victims

The reports did not publish the names of the three people who were shot. One man died. The second man's injuries were described as critical. The woman's condition was reported as good. No further detail about the victims, their ages or where they were taken for treatment was included in the first reports, and this article does not publish names that police have not released.

What is still unknown

No arrests had been announced in the reports published on Saturday night. The reports did not say what led to the shooting, whether the people who were shot knew the people who fired, or whether the vehicle was found. Detectives were left with the work that follows a shooting like this one: witness accounts from West Ogden Avenue, any camera video from the block, and the search for the vehicle the two people got out of before the shots were fired. The first reports also gave no time for the shooting beyond Saturday evening, and they did not say whether anyone inside the vehicle was hurt or whether shots were returned.

The neighborhood

North Lawndale is a West Side neighborhood, and Ogden Avenue is one of its main streets, running through the neighborhood toward downtown Chicago. A fatal shooting on that avenue on Halloween evening is the kind of story the neighborhood reads first the next morning, because it happened on a street local residents use every day. On Sunday morning, the open facts were few and plain: three people shot, one man dead, one man critical, one woman in good condition, and no arrest announced.