Dashcam Video Shows Gunmen Open Fire While Hanging Out Of Speeding Car

CHICAGO — Cameras mounted on an ambulance captured video of a brazen daylight shooting last month along the lakefront trail on Chicago's South Side.

Recorded Sept. 21, video from the ambulance shows a black Infiniti crossing into oncoming traffic lanes as it speeds east along Marquette Drive in Jackson Park.

One person hangs out of the rear driver's side window of the car, firing a black handgun at something behind the ambulance as it passes.

Another figure emerges from the rear passenger seat, raises a handgun and fires.

"Sounded like a gun to me," said one member of the ambulance crew after first few shots.

"It is," said the other, as they both duck to take cover during another volley of bullets.

After the driver pulls over, he notices someone is down on the ground on the bike path along the outer harbor of Jackson Park.

"Oh, someone on a bike just got shot," he says.

After the crew turned the ambulance around to go check on the cyclist and render aid, they learned he had not been shot but fell of his bicycle trying to avoid the hail of gunfire, according to ambulance company officials. He did not need to be taken to a hospital.

Footage of the shooting recorded by dashboard-mounted and internal cameras was released Thursday by Skokie-based Medical Express Ambulance Service, or MedEx.

"Our primary concern is crew safety, but the team put their safety aside and went to the aid of someone else,” Michael Pieroni, the company's chief operating officer, said in a statement. “While nobody was seriously injured in this incident, it illustrates the hazards EMS providers face daily."

The shooting took place less than a mile from the site of the under-construction Obama Presidential Library, where city officials handed the former president's private foundation a 99-year lease on more than 19 acres of publicly owned wooded parkland for just $10.

Earlier this week, someone stole a Chicago Fire Department ambulance from the station at California and Fillmore avenues in the West Side North Lawndale neighborhood. Police later found the ambulance with minor damage less than 3 miles away.

Chicago police said no one is in custody for either incident and did not answer queries regarding the black Infiniti shown in the ambulance dashcam video.