A late-morning routine on Chicago’s West Side turned violent Saturday when a 79-year-old man was shot in the face while sitting in his parked car in the Austin neighborhood, rattling neighbors and triggering a full-on police hunt for the shooters.
The attack happened around 10:47 a.m. in the 800 block of North Parkside Avenue. Police said two or three people walked up to the vehicle, opened fire, then took off on foot. The victim was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and was listed in good condition, a small relief in an otherwise grim scene.
According to FOX 32 Chicago, the Chicago Police Department said Area Four detectives are handling the case. Officers spent the late morning and early afternoon canvassing the block, knocking on doors, and looking for any surveillance cameras that might have caught the suspects before or after the shooting.
Investigators work the block
Police have not released detailed descriptions of the attackers, saying only that two to three people approached the victim’s car on foot and ran off after the shooting. Detectives are zeroing in on security cameras and eyewitness accounts from nearby homes and businesses in hopes of piecing together a clearer picture of what happened…