CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Police are investigating an assault involving a paintball gun on a bus in Lincoln Park Monday night.
The bus was on the 1300 block of West Fullerton at about 9:30 p.m.
According to police, a 38-year-old man was involved in a verbal altercation with another man. That man approached him with a paintball gun and fired several times, hitting the 38-year-old in the back of the head.
He was injured.
He was taken by fire department ambulance to Illinois Masonic Medical Center. He was initially in fair condition.
The man with the paintball gun got away.
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