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One Person Shot On Dan Ryan Expressway Near 95th Street Early Saturday Morning

CHICAGO (CBS) -- One person was reportedly shot on the Dan Ryan Expressway southbound near 95th Street early Saturday morning, according to Illinois State Police.

ISP responded to a local hospital after one person was taken there for non-life threatening injuries sustained around 3 a.m. while driving in the area.

Police shut down the southbound lanes of Interstate-94 for the investigation from about 4 a.m. until 4:18 a.m.

The shooting happened more than five hours after another attack on the Dan Ryan.

Illinois State Police said, around 9:45 p.m., a Metra Police Department officer saw a shooting in the northbound lanes of Interstate 94 near 87th Street, and began following the shooter's vehicle.

The officer was able to pull over the vehicle in a parking lot near 79th Street and Lafayette Avenue. Four people were taken into custody.

Leroy Longs, 28, was charged with one felony count of aggravated discharge of a firearm. The other three people in the vehicle were released without charges.

No one was injured in that shooting.

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