City Worker Shot In Auburn Gresham
CHICAGO (CBS) -- A city Water Department employee was shot in the face Friday morning in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
The 28-year-old city worker had just arrived as part of a crew fixing a sewer in the 1400 block of West 85th Street.
He drove up in his own private vehicle, and seconds after he parked around 8 a.m., another vehicle pulled up next to him, and someone inside opened fire. The driver's side window of the worker's minivan was blown out, and he was shot in the face.
Other city workers at the scene were just steps away at the time. A neighbor called 911.
"They had just pulled up. The guy in the van couldn't have been sitting there two seconds. I'm wondering if the car had followed him, because as soon as he parked, the gray, four-door, silver car just pulled next to him, just started shooting," eyewitness LaVerne Dungey said. "For you to shoot at a city worker, you need to be in jail. You need to put the guns down. Stop it."
Dungey said the gunman sped away down an alley.
The worker was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in fair condition.
One of his colleagues said the man has worked for the Water Department as a construction laborer for two years.
No one was in custody late Friday morning.
