A wounded guard is questioning why no charges were filed in a University Village shootout that injured 4 on Maxwell Street.
Berrie McCormick is a former Marine who served in Afghanistan.
He was grazed in his head and arm. The teenager was shot while also firing back, according to a Chicago police report. McCormick believes he hit two of the attackers, who were left wounded in the 1000-block of South Maxwell Street. Video shows a group of men on the street, but they appear to be unarmed and walking to a car in a lot when gunfire erupts and they scatter for cover.
Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the office, said the evidence provided by police "was insufficient to meet our burden of proof to file charges at this time, and the police agreed with this decision." Responding officers recovered two handguns, one of them near the apartment complex, according to the police report. The other was found nearby in the 1000-block of West 14th Street, near where the wounded teen collapsed.Of the two men McCormick believes he shot, the 23-year-old was listed in critical condition at Stroger Hospital, where he underwent surgery on two gunshot wounds to his legs, according to the police report.
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