Alderman On Back Of Yards Shooting: 'We Could Have Had Our Own Massacre Here'
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago police are investigating a shooting incident that left Back of the Yards residents and the neighborhood's alderman shaken.
WBBM's Bernie Tafoya reports, it happened about 2 p.m. Wednesday when a van pulled up and someone opened fire with a military style assault weapon, firing dozens of bullets at a house in the 4300 block of South Marshfield Avenue.
"We could have had our own version of a massacre here in Chicago," Ald. Raymond Lopez said, referring to the deadly mass shooting last weekend at a nightclub in Orlando. "My school kids were 30 minutes from being released from school."
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Residents say the building is a three-flat that's home to eight children.
No one was hurt.
Lopez was in the alley at the time investigating a complaint of illegally dumped tires.
He says when the volley of shots rang out, he called police. He says he knew the weapon used in the attack was an assault rifle because of the sound the shots made and the size of the bullet casings at the scene.
Bullets riddled a wooden porch in the front of the house and they also passed through windows into living rooms in at least two of the flats.
Lopez says the incident speaks to the growing use of deadly weapons being used by gang members.
