Crime & Safety
1 Dead, 2 Wounded In Shootout Outside Chicago Southwest Side Bar
An exchange of gunfire left a 27-year-old man dead and a 31-year-old man wounded. He was last listed in fair condition.
November 18, 2024
CHICAGO (CBS) — A grand opening of a bar ends in a deadly shootout between a security guard and two armed men Friday night on the city's Southwest Side. The bar was to be doing business illegally.
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City inspectors were inside the bar when gunshots rang out. The alderman in the ward said the business shouldn't have been open.
Police lights flood the 7000 block of West Archer Avenue in Garfield Ridge Friday just before 8 p.m. An argument quickly turned into a fight outside of the bar when a security guard with a concealed carry license was approached by two men, one of them armed.
