Exclusive video shows the moment someone fired a gun from a vehicle, apparently at another driver, critically injuring a teen boy on the Northwest Side Sunday afternoon. Witnesses told ABC7 the teen was likely not the intended target.
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Police said the shooting happened near a barbershop in the Albany Park neighborhood's 3800-block of West Lawrence Avenue around 3 p.m. A 15-year-old boy was walking in an alley when someone drove by in a back sedan and fired shots, striking him in his leg, police said.The exclusive video shows the moment someone fires a gun from a vehicle, apparently at another driver. Witnesses told ABC7 the teen, who's recovering at the hospital, was likely not the intended target.
Security video showed what appears to be a silver SUV trailing a black car. Then, when the car turned into an alley, gunfire erupted."He just said, 'Help me,' and everybody called 911," an employee at Johnny Blades barber shop said. "I talked to him, 'hey! What happened?' He can't talk. He said, 'please, I can't breathe. Just help me.'"
The victim's older brother, John Aspadin, came to the scene after visiting his sibling in the hospital.Aspadin said his brother was with his friends, a few blocks away from home, when he became an innocent victim of gun violence."A lot of people don't get that chance," Aspadin said. "I'm such a lucky brother because, you know, this could've ended badly. They gave my brother a second chance, and a lot of people don't get that chance.
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