A man was fatally wounded in a shooting Monday afternoon in the same East Garfield Park neighborhood block where another man was rundownby an SUV about 13 hours earlier, police said.
Reginald J. Crawford, 30, heard gunfire and realized hehad been shot in the chest at 4:37 p.m. in the 3200 block of West Walnut. He taken to Stroger Hospital by paramedics, where hewas pronounced dead at 5:15 p.m., according to Chicago Police and theCook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Police tape blocked off the area as detectives conducted a homicide investigation. The new tape coveredolder tapeput up to corral the scene of the earlier hit-and-run crash.
In that incident, a 23-year-old mansuffered injuries to his right legwhen someone drove a dark-colored Jeeponto the sidewalk and struck him, police said. The Jeep also struck a fence and the front porch of a home before driving off.
The man who was struck was taken to Mount Sinai, where his condition had stabilized, police said. The case also remained under investigation Monday evening.
Chicago Police investigate at the scene of a fatal shooting Monday, May 7, 2018 in the 3200 block of West Walnut. | Jamie Leventhal/Sun-Times
Jamie Leventhal/Sun-Times
