A family desperate to find their stolen SUV tracked it down to a South Side parking lot on Sunday morning.
When the SUV’s owner approached, investigators said, the suspects inside the vehicle began shooting. The owner, a 31-year-old man, then fired back.
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Bullet holes now riddle the crashed Dodge Durango. The mangled metal and shattered glass detail a violent shootout that ended with at least three suspects in custody. One of them is a juvenile, and another is a 23-year-old man who was shot twice amid the fray.
All of this unfolded as a family took it upon themselves to track down their stolen vehicle.
“We called the police and – because we had a tracker on the car – they said, ‘Don’t chase them.’ By the time we were talking to the police, the car passed by them. They tried to get them, but they didn’t stop,” said Liborio Torres, the SUV owner’s father-in-law.
But the SUV owner and his family kept pursuing the alleged thieves.