A 64-year-old man was found critically wounded on a Far South Side block late Thursday night after no one called in gunfire, a delay that may have been prevented if ShotSpotter were still active in the neighborhood.
Fire Department personnel and Chicago police officers were dispatched to the first block of West 112th Place around 10:42 p.m. after someone reported a man lying outside “mumbling for help,” according to dispatch records. Responders found him on the ground with gunshot wounds to his back, groin, inner thigh, and buttocks.
He was taken to Christ Hospital in critical condition. CPD said he was unable to provide details about what happened, and no arrests have been made…