A concealed-carrying tow truck driver fired back at a drive-by shooter following a broad-daylight bus crash in Chicago last week.
What are the details?
Chicago police told WLS-TV the drive-by shooting occurred around 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Archer Heights neighborhood. The station said it spoke to Lorenzo Hernandez, who was driving to work in his SUV when he saw a crash involving a CTA bus and at least four other vehicles near West 47th Street and South Archer Avenue.
“I saw the bus crash happen as I was stopped at the light,” Hernandez told WLS through a translator.
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Police told WLS one of the bullets hit a CTA bus supervisor — a 55-year-old man — who was responding to the crash.
Hernandez added to the station that a bullet hit his SUV, stopping short of hitting him when his car’s engine blocked the path of the bullet.
Tow truck driver fires back
A tow truck driver who was helping to move vehicles involved in the crash was standing by Hernandez’s SUV and dropped down amid the gunfire, WLS reported.
Hernandez thought the tow truck driver was shot, but the station said Hernandez soon saw the tow truck driver jump back up, run around to the front of his SUV, and fire two shots at the gunman.
The tow truck driver, who didn’t want to go on camera, told WLS he saw the shooter aim at him before he returned fire with his own gun.
Hernandez noted to the station that one never knows what will happen in the next moment.
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Hernandez added to the station that after the shootout, the tow truck driver thanked him: “He said if my SUV wasn’t there, he would have gotten killed.”
Anything else?
Police spoke to the tow truck driver, who was asked to stay behind as part of the investigation, WLS said, adding that police confirmed a witness with a concealed carry license fired back.
Police added to the station that the wounded bus supervisor, who was hit in his thigh, was taken to a hospital and stabilized. The bus supervisor was not the shooter’s intended target, a CTA spokesperson told WLS.
No one is in custody, and detectives are investigating, the station said.
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