A man was shot and killed in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood shortly before midnight on Thanksgiving, but no one called 911 for about ten minutes after the gunfire, according to Chicago police. The neighborhood was served by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection system for years until Mayor Brandon Johnson disconnected it in September 2024. The technology could alert police to shootings even when humans did not.
Police were dispatched around 12:03 a.m. after a caller reported finding a man shot in the 5100 block of South Luna Avenue and said they heard gunfire and a woman screaming roughly ten minutes earlier. No other calls about the shots were made.
CPD said officers arrived at the scene to find an unresponsive 27-year-old man on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead…