Chicago police and Illinois State police responded about 3:15 p.m. Thursday to a report that an ambulance and a passenger vehicle were hit by gunfire on the northbound Dan Ryan Expressway near 31st Street from another vehicle
A Superior ambulance was transporting a patient inside when it was struck by gunfire while traveling in the local lanes of the expressway. An employee and patient were in the back of the ambulance and a driver was in the driver’s seat of the ambulance. Two people were in the passenger car. No one was injured.
Both the ambulance and the car pulled off the expressway. A description of the shooter was not available Thursday afternoon.
Police investigated while blocking the two right lanes of the northbound lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway between Pershing and 43rd Street.
SUPERIOR AMBULANCE 5254 HIT …
Ambulance shot up on Dan Ryan in broad daylight @cbschicago at ten pic.twitter.com/NfhIFH1Yhu
— david parrish (@dparrishcbs2) May 8, 2015
Ambulance and car hit by bullets on #DanRyan. http://t.co/oYGVlY4cdg pic.twitter.com/rE1wxXYddm
— Eric Horng (@EricHorngABC7) May 7, 2015
Ambulance With Patient Hit by Gunfire on Dan Ryan http://t.co/3jVKNqQGo8 #chicago pic.twitter.com/Z2n5jumdpr
— Chicago News Now (@chicagonewsnow) May 7, 2015
Shots fired on Dan Ryan hit ambulance, car http://t.co/dBClbhbsF9 pic.twitter.com/xhWqhGPsp9
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) May 7, 2015
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CBS 2 Chicago: Ambulance Hit By Gunshots On Dan Ryan, North Of U.S. Cellular
NBC 5 Chicago: Ambulance With Patient Hit by Gunfire on Dan Ryan
ABC 7 Chicago: DAN RYAN EXPRESSWAY SHOOTING: AMBULANCE, CAR HIT BY GUNFIRE