CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The owner of a Wicker Park club said they called Chicago police twice before a fatal shooting two weeks ago — but officers didn’t come until after bullets started flying.
Resources were stretched thin the morning of Oct. 10, that’s what the owner of the Point said dispatchers told his staff when they called 911 twice to help disperse a crowd.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported Ald. Daniel La Spata said officers were working a carjacking nearby instead of clearing cars from a no parking zone set up to discourage such crowds.
Bar security searched customers but the owner told the paper parked cars on the street give people access to guns left inside. About 10 minutes after the second call and no officers arrived, the shooting started.
Police said one of the gunmen died and four other people were injured.