Crime & Safety
Off-Duty Chicago Police Officer Shoots Three People At Bowling Alley
After the shooting, sources said the off-duty officer fled the scene, and while driving, he threw the weapon out of his car window.
BLUE ISLAND, IL — Blue Island Police said, around 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, officers responded to a shooting at Burr Oak Bowl at 3030 W. 127th St. When officers arrived, they found three people who had been shot. Two of them were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where one of them remained hospitalized Wednesday afternoon with a gunshot wound to the chest. The third victim drove himself to a local hospital for a superficial graze wound.
Multiple police sources told CBS 2’s Suzanne Le Mignot the incident began as a domestic dispute between the officer and his girlfriend, inside a bathroom at the bowling alley. Two men tried to help her, and sources said that’s when the off-duty officer fired his gun, shooting one man in his hand and the other in his shoulder as they tried to intervene. A third man also was shot.
