A Chicago man who fired a machine gun at an off-duty Chicago police officer during a road rage altercation on the Stevenson Expressway has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, court records show.
Neither the officer nor the accused man, 26-year-old David Abarca, was injured in the August 2022 shootout. But a 24-year-old woman driving the car Abarca was riding in suffered serious injuries when one of the officer’s bullets struck her in the head.
It all began around 10 p.m. on August 4, 2022, as the off-duty officer was driving to work and honked his horn because the car ahead of him did not move when a traffic light turned green on Kedzie Avenue near the Stevenson, prosecutors said. Abarca was a passenger in that vehicle…