A 23-year-old man was shot and injured Easter Sunday when a car pulled up and opened fire on another vehicle parked on a quiet residential street in Lincolnwood, police said.
A neighbor on the 6700 block of Hamlin Street, where the shooting occurred, heard gunfire and called police, who arrived shortly before 5 p.m. to find both vehicles had fled the area, police said.
Police said they later received a call from Evanston Hospital, where the victim, a Lincolnwood resident, was being treated for non-life-threatening injuries. He has since been released from the hospital, according to Lincolnwood Police.
The man who was shot had been sitting in the front passenger seat of a vehicle parked near his home along with two other people when a black-colored vehicle with several people inside pulled up and started shooting into the vehicle, according to Lincolnwood police Lt. Randy Rathmell.
Police said the March 27 incident was isolated, and that the victim and the other people in the vehicle were likely targeted. The victim was cooperating with an ongoing police investigation, Rathmell said.
Lincolnwood police have increased patrols in the area of the shooting.
Natalie Hayes is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.