Victims found bleeding in streets of 2 former ShotSpotter areas as witnesses stay silent

A man and a 19-year-old woman were shot on back-to-back nights in two Chicago neighborhoods where the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection network once operated—but in both cases, nobody called 911 to report the gunfire.

Instead, a passerby found the man lying in the street, and a Chicago Fire Department ambulance crew discovered the woman bleeding from gunshot wounds. The 35-year-old man later died.

A passerby found him around 2:09 a.m. Thursday in the 700 block of East 90th Street. He had been shot in the neck and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition, and subsequently died…

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