Another Gunshot Victim

All these people, lying in alleys, undiscovered for long periods of time without medical or police response....it's actually a bit entertaining, it's providing CWB with lots of material for articles, and it ought to be embarrassing to politicians:

• A woman shot and critically injured lay on the ground in pain for more than 20 minutes before first responders located her early Sunday morning. Nobody called 911 to report gunshots in the area, which used to be served by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection network.

  At about 1:40 a.m., an anonymous 911 caller reported hearing a woman calling for help in the 7500 block of South Sangamon. According to police dispatch recordings, she said she thought the woman was in the alley or maybe around some nearby railroad tracks.

  Cops went to the area, but they didn’t find anyone. As they were wrapping up their search, around 2 a.m., another 911 call came in. This time, the person reported hearing a woman screaming that she had been shot in an alley behind the 7500 block of South Sangamon.

  Within two minutes, the officers and firefighters located the 33-year-old woman. She was in the alley between Sangamon and May, south of 75th Street.

This winter, we'll guarantee some shooting victim freezes to death while waiting for police/ambulance responses that aren't arriving in a timely manner.