May 15, 2021- 10:05 p.m.
Three men were shot Saturday morning, apparently in a gunfight in a Near North Side parking garage during a dispute over a stolen car, authorities said.
The three gunshot victims were reported about 9:50 a.m. in the first block of West Grand Avenue, according to Chicago police and the Chicago Fire Department. Police spokeswoman Sally Bown said “apparently they were all shooting at each other,” citing preliminary information.
The three men, ages 20, 27 and 28, were found inside a parking garage, according to a police media notification.
The 20-year-old man was shot twice in the knee and taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition, while the 27-year-old man was wounded multiple times in the body and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition, police said.
The 28-year-old man was grazed in the eye and taken to Northwestern in fair condition.Chicago rapper Lil Reese, whose real name is Tavares Taylor, was identified as the 28-year-old man who was shot, according to a police report.
In a media notification, police said no one was in custody in the shooting.Before the shooting occurred, a man reported to police that his Dodge Durango was stolen, the report said.
The man had a GPS tracking device on the Durango that showed the vehicle was in the downtown area. His father found the Durango in the Grand Plaza Parking garage, 32 W. Grand Ave., on the third floor.
While the father tried to detain the people inside the Durango, someone came out from somewhere and opened fire into the Durango, causing it to hit a pillar.
The garage is part of a high-rise apartment tower at 525 N. Dearborn St., and police sources, citing preliminary information, said the three who were shot appeared to have been in a confrontation inside the garage. After the stolen vehicle crashed, those inside got out and “exchanged” shots with someone, the sources said.
Numerous shell casings were found at the scene, and two handguns were found in the Durango, the report said.
Taylor told police that he met the people in the Durango outside of the garage and directed them where to drive so he could buy cannabis from them, the report said. The other people who were shot gave police little information.
A graphic video circulating on social media appears to show part of the aftermath of the shooting. The woman filming the vertical video and a man off camera are heard yelling at a man, wearing a hoodie and navy pants that appear to be stained with blood, walking out of a parking garage and another man lying against a wall behind a barrier.
The second man, who looks like Taylor and has similar tattoos, appears to be going in and out of consciousness and heavily breathing as a Chicago police officer tries to talk to him and radios for an ambulance.ADVERTISEMENT“That (expletive) stole my car!” the man yelling says.“Look at Lil Reese! Look at Lil Reese!” the woman says.“You stole my (expletive)!” the woman tells the man with the hoodie sitting on the ground.
“That wasn’t me,” he replies.About 5 p.m., a post was made to Lil Reese’s Instagram’s story, @reesemoney300, that read “Everyone Keep praying for reese & his family.”Members of Chicago police walk down the ramp from a parking garage where three people were shot at Grand Avenue and Dearborn Street on May 15, 2021.
More information will be available soon.
