May 11, 2007 12:11 am US/Central
Teen Dead, 4 Others Injured In Shooting On CTA Bus
CBS 2's Dana Kozlov and Kris Habermehl contributed to this report.
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
A shooting rampage on a CTA bus left one high school student dead, and four other people wounded on the Far South Side Thursday when a gunman entered the bus and opened fire.
As CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports, the gunman opened fire at around 3 p.m. Thursday at 103rd Street and Lowe.
Three of the victims were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. One 17-year-old boy was shot either in the stomach or the chest and was in surgery for much of the night. Shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday, his friends told CBS 2 he did not make it. But, he may have died saving another passenger.
Sixteen-year-old Tiara Reed was released from the hospital Thursday. She was shot in the ankle. Her father, a fire department employee said the young man may have saved her life.
"Young lady that works with me, she's a captain in the fire department, he son was also shot," said Eddie Reed, Tiara's father. "Supposedly he pushed my daughter out of the way and he fell, and the guy shot him in the chest."
One of the five shooting victims left Little Company of Mary Hospital Thursday evening, with a bullet wound in his arm.
"But he's OK, he's doing fine," a woman close to him said. "We're just going to pray about it, is all."
The chaos on the CTA bus broke out after police say a man got on at 103rd and Halsted streets in the Roseland neighborhood, and started shooting.
Mary Hayes' cousin was on the bus and described the scene.
"She just called me and she was hysterical, like, oh my God, oh my God, she's like, they just shot 'em in front of me," she said.
"What's important for you to know is at this time we do not believe it was a random shooting," said Assistant Deputy Superintendent Eugene Williams of the Chicago Police Department.
In all, five people were shot, at least for of them Percy L. Julian High School students.
A seventeen-year-old girl was one of those students, a bullet entering her chest and her side.
In her case too, relatives say someone intervened to help save her life.
"She just laid down on the ground probably collapsed or whatever, and somebody was walking past the scene, rushing, thinking it was one of their family members and actually picked her up and took her to the hospital," said the girl's cousin, Derrick Coley.
Police say there are cameras on that bus and they do know who they are looking for, but so far CBS 2 is told nobody is in custody.
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