Driver avoids injury after truck hit by bullets on Dan Ryan Expressway
Illinois State Police were investigating a shooting early Sunday morning in which a truck’s rear window was shattered after someone shot at it while the driver was headed south on the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Nobody was physically injured, state police said.
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Police said the driver was headed southbound on I-94 at 67th Street when he heard two or three gunshots and noticed the rear window of his truck tractor had been shattered.
The man drove himself to the Chicago Police Department’s Wentworth District at 51st Street and Wentworth Avenue and filed a report stating his truck had been shot at and hit. The report noted his truck tractor had been struck twice and one bullet was lodged in the widow lining, police said.
The truck was otherwise safe to drive, state police said.
Illinois State Police Officer Rodger Goines said the suspected shooter was driving a black Dodge Durango. Goines said the shooting was still under investigation.
Following a rash of expressway shootings in recent years, the number of shootings on expressways has decreased. In 2021, there were 310 expressway shootings reported to police but that number dropped almost in half in 2022, and another 32% in 2023. The rate of shootings is down so far again this year, while the number of arrests, gun seizures, and recovered carjacked or stolen cars has increased significantly.
State police have credited license plate cameras, along with other measures, for helping reduce the shootings, though some critics have expressed privacy concerns about the cameras.
