Chicago Incident: 37-Year-Old Woman Injured in Shooting on CTA Bus Near 39th Street and King Drive in Bronzeville, Police Report

CHICAGO — A shooting incident on a CTA bus on Chicago’s South Side left at least one person injured on Friday afternoon.

Eyewitnesses reported that the shooter appeared to be targeting someone else on the bus but ended up hitting a different passenger. The shocking event was captured on video as it unfolded in broad daylight, just as the bus arrived at a stop and a nearby high school was dismissing its students.

Chopper footage showed the scene at the intersection of East 39th Street and South King Drive in the Bronzeville neighborhood. The CTA bus was stationary, cordoned off with crime scene tape.

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According to Chicago police, shots were fired at the bus from the street at approximately 3:30 p.m. The incident occurred in the 3900 block of South King Drive, directly opposite a Mariano’s grocery store.

The sudden burst of gunfire sent people scrambling for safety, causing panic and prompting Wendell Phillips High School, located nearby, to temporarily go into lockdown.

“As I’m hearing the shooting, because I was about to go get my kids, and I had ducked down,” an anonymous witness said.

A 37-year-old woman on the CTA bus was shot in the leg. She was taken taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition, according to CPD.

“I heard a ‘clap, clap’ and we thought it was a car crash,” said Andre Anthony, the owner of a nearby barbershop. “Just a week, two weeks ago, something had happened at the parking lot of the LA Fitness.”

“So, all of these different escalations of activity, of crime, of shooting, it plagues us,” Anthony said.

Citizen App video showed the conscious 37-year-old passenger being wheeled off the CTA bus after she was shot. She is expected to survive.

Police say the gunman shot from outside the bus, right next door to Eric Lewis, a former Marine who saw the violence unfold.

“I don’t think the lady was the target. I think it was probably somebody else… On the bus,” Lewis said.

His military training then kicked in.

“I seen the young man with the gun in his hand, and I was trying to chase him,” Lewis said. “He cut through the alley, through the gangway and cut through this alley, ran diagonally.”

Lewis says the shooter was able to run away.

Multiple CPD squad car’s could be seen rerouting traffic at the scene. Police had King Drive between Pershing and 40th Street closed off to traffic as they investigated.

So far, no arrests have been made.

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