Eric D. Knox was killed and two security guards were wounded in a shooting in the University Village neighborhood early Saturday that witnesses are blaming on the guards.
A car is parked at the emergency room entrance at University of Illinois Hospital after a man was fatally shot in the 1300 block of West Hastings Saturday. | Matthew Hendrickson / Sun-Times
The three were shot about 3:40 a.m. in the 1300 block of West Hastings, police said. Witnesses said the security guards pulled up to a large party outside the ABLA-Robert Brooks Homes before shots were fired.
Knox, 24, was shot multiple times in the back, and was driven by friends to University of Chicago Hospital. He was pronounced dead there at 3:50 a.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1300 block of North Keeler.
The car was left outside the emergency room entrance, where a crowd gathered outside the hospital and several people cried and held each other. Others waited together in small groups on the sidewalk.
A man was fatally shot and two security guards were wounded in a shooting in the University Village neighborhood Saturday. | Matthew Hendrickson / Sun-Times
At least one of the security guards drove himself to the Chicago Police 12th District station at 1412 S. Blue Island after the shooting. Police tape was wrapped around a Kates Detective Agency SUV where it was stopped in front of the station.
The guards were then taken to Stroger Hospital for treatment, and their conditions were stabilized. One, a 29-year-old man, was shot in both thighs, the hand and forearm. The second, a 30-year-old man, was shot in the hand.
A person who answered the phone at Kates Detective Agency Saturday morning declined to comment.
Witnesses blamed the shootings on the security guards, but police said the investigation was ongoing as of Tuesday morning, and no charges had been filed.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire