A man was gunned down outside the Archer Orange Line station early Sunday morning, and for ten long minutes he lay on the ground without anyone calling 911 about gunfire or his injuries.
The delayed response wasn’t just because a hesitant CTA worker waited ten minutes to call 911 after hearing the gunshot, but also because Mayor Brandon Johnson pulled the plug on Chicago’s ShotSpotter network one year ago this month. The controversial decision removed a system that once alerted officers to gunfire in the city’s most violent neighborhoods, even when people did not call 911.
CPD said police responded to the Orange Line station at 3528 South Leavitt around 5:30 a.m. after someone found the 26-year-old man lying outside the station, shot. He was pronounced dead at the scene with a gunshot wound to his upper body. A single 9mm shell casing was found on the sidewalk outside the station…