CHICAGO — A 26-year-old man is recovering after being shot in the Gold Coast overnight. Chicago police officers recovered a firearm at the scene.
CPD units posted in the area reported shots fired at 3:28 a.m. and they quickly found the 26-year-old victim in the first block of East Goethe, according to police radio traffic. The officers applied a tourniquet to slow blood loss from a gunshot wound he suffered to his right leg.
The gunman fled the scene in a gray vehicle, according to a CPD media statement. An officer who reviewed surveillance video said the shooter was a Black male wearing a blue top with a white t-shirt underneath and gray pants…