Schaumburg police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 5:19 PM Monday August 14, 2017 to a shooting, attempted homicide near the Walgreens entrance at the northwest corner of Wise Road and Roselle Road Schaumburg, IL. Police and firefighter/paramedics received a report that a shooting occurred and that a man was down in the street.
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UPDATE 11:33 AM: The Cardinal Schaumburg Shooting Victim at Roselle Rd and Wise Rd Has Died (at 2:41 a.m. Tuesday at Lutheran General Hospital)
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UPDATE 11:30 PM: Witnesses said a man was shot in the Walgreen store’s parking lot near the entrance. Witnesses said the man ran into the right, southbound lane of Roselle before collapsing.
Schaumburg Police say the shooting victim was in his 30s or 40s, and had a gunshot wound to his chest. The gunshot victim was transported to Level I Trauma Center Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge where he was listed in serious condition.
Police evidence technicians were inspecting the parking lot area and collected some apparent evidence from some shrubs that run along the sidewalk of the west side of Roselle Road near the east edge of the Walgreens parking lot.
Police said the victim and shooter knew each other, and that the shooting was not random. Police said one or two suspects are involved in the shooting, but did not provide descriptions.
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Two homicide suspects were described fleeing, possibly in a white GMC SUV.
The suspects are described as …
#1) a male/black, age 35 short hair, blue T-shirt armed with a handgun, and
#2) a female/black long black hair with red tips walking in the area.
Schaumburg police were gathering evidence and focusing on the parking lot just east of the Walgreens building and the right lane of southbound Roselle Road about 200 feet north of Wise Road.
ARCHIVED FACEBOOK LIVE VIDEO: Video about 6:30 p.m. when man disturbed by video documentation of the crime scene asked police to prohibit video capturing, and police officer (not from Schaumburg) asks videographer to go over by the media across the street.
ARCHIVED FACEBOOK LIVE VIDEO: Videographer stays in position after Schaumburg police officer states it’s ok to stay in position behind the police tape.
More Cardinal news Monday August 14, 2017 …
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