Rosemont police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 12:01 p.m. to a report of a shooting victim on Scott Street near Granville Street. One person was shot, and one or more other people were injured, in the reported shooting incident.
Rosemont Elementary School in Rosemont was placed on a soft lockdown. Two Rosemont rescue ambulances responded and a rescue ambulance from Des Plaines Fire Department and Park Ridge Fire Department responded. A staging area for the ambulances was set at the guard shack for the gated community at Scott Street and Higgins Road. The Park Ridge ambulance returned with no patient. The status of the Des Plaines ambulance was unknown. At least one patient was transported to Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge.
A Rosemont fire ladder truck blocked traffic in the neighborhood near the house where the shooting was reported.
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