
Questions Remain About Shooting at White Sox Game
Clip: 8/30/2023 | 2m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
What we do and don't know about the strange incident.
Details about the incident remain scarce, days after a 42-year-old woman was shot in the leg and a 26-year-old woman suffered a graze wound to the abdomen, which occurred in the fourth inning of the Sox’s Friday game against the Oakland Athletics.
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Questions Remain About Shooting at White Sox Game
Clip: 8/30/2023 | 2m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Details about the incident remain scarce, days after a 42-year-old woman was shot in the leg and a 26-year-old woman suffered a graze wound to the abdomen, which occurred in the fourth inning of the Sox’s Friday game against the Oakland Athletics.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>>> THE ATTORNEY REPRESENTING ONE OF THE WOMEN SHOT AT A RECENT WHITE SOX GAME SAYS HIS CLIENTS INJURIES WERE NOT FROM A SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT .
WTTW NEWS REPORTED MATT MASTERSON HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE BIZARRE INCIDENT, AND JOINS US NOW WITH MORE.
SO, MATT, THE INCIDENT HAPPENED DURING FRIDAY'S GAME AGAINST THE OAKLAND ATHLETICS.
STILL, DETAILS ABOUT THE INCIDENT ARE A LITTLE BIT SCARCE.
RECAP FOR US WHAT WE DO KNOW.
>> WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE FOURTH INNING OF THAT GAME, AND THAT TWO WOMEN WERE INJURED.
IT WAS A 42-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHO WAS SHOT IN THE LEG AND HOSPITALIZED, AND A 26-YEAR-OLD WHO SUFFERED A WOOD GRAZE WOUND TO HER ABDOMEN THAT HAPPENED DURING THE GAME, WHICH WAS COMPLETED AS PLANNED AT THE CPD INVESTIGATION GOT UNDERWAY.
SUPERINTENDENT, INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT FRED WALLER SO THAT THERE HAD BEEN A REQUEST TO HALT THE GAME, BUT THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON AN ACTIVE SHOOTER STRIKE, AND AT THEIR INVESTIGATION GOT UNDERWAY, THE GAME ENDED AS IT WAS, SO THEY DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO END THIS PREMATURELY WHILE THEY WERE INVESTIGATING.
>> SO THE ATTORNEY FOR ONE OF THE VICTIMS, A 42-YEAR-OLD SEASON-TICKET HOLDER AND VOID CARDHOLDER, THAT'S HER WOUNDS WERE NOT SELF-INFLICTED .
WHAT EVIDENCE IS THE ATTORNEY POINTING TO WHAT THEY >> HER ATTORNEY PUT OUT A STATEMENT TODAY THAT THEY WERE GOOD PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE AND EXTRA EVIDENCE OF HER INJURIES, AND THEY'VE CROSSCONNECT THIS INFORMATION WITH FIREARMS EXPERTS, WITH MEDICAL EXPERTS, AND THEY SAID THAT THEY COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE TOP OF THAT, THIS WASN'T THE RESULT OF AN ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM THAT WAS ON HER BODY OR ON HER PERSON AS THIS HAPPEN.
THIS STATEMENT, OF COURSE, IS COMING FROM AN ATTORNEY REVISITING THIS WOMAN.
THE CPD IN ANY SORT OF PUBLIC DETERMINATION THAT THIS IS OR IS NOT THE CASE YET.
THIS IS THE FIRST WE'VE HEARD FROM ONE OF THE VICTIMS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAD FIREARMS ON THEM, AND THAT COULD'VE LED TO WHAT HAPPENED HERE.
>> A LOT OF CHANGING STORIES ABOUT WHERE THE GUNSHOTS CAME FROM.
ANY INDICATION ABOUT THAT?
>> SO WALLER HAD SAID EARLIER THIS WEEK THAT THEY HAD JUST ABOUT RULED OUT SHOTS HAD NOT COME FROM OUTSIDE THE STADIUM, WHICH MAKES SENSE.
BUT THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS THAT POLICE LEADERS ARE RECONSIDERING THIS, THAT THEY'RE TAKING ANOTHER LOOK AT WHETHER THE BULLETS COULD'VE COME FROM SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE THE STADIUM.
BUT IF THEY DID COME FROM INSIDE THE STADIUM, THERE ARE, OBVIOUSLY, METAL DETECTORS THAT FANS HAVE TO GO THROUGH TO GET TO THE GAME, SO IT'S UNCLEAR HOW SOMEBODY COULD'VE SNUCK A FIREARM INTO THE STADIUM.
AND AGAIN, THE WOMAN, WHO WAS A VOID CARDHOLDER , IS DENYING THAT SHE EVER HAD A FIREARM ON HER AT THE GAME, THAT SHE COULD'VE FIRED ANYWAY.
>> AND WE KNOW THE SECOND VICTIM OF THE SHOOTING, 26-YEAR-OLD CPS TEACHER.
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HER CONDITION?
>> SO IT WAS A GRAZE WOUND THAT SHE SUFFERED TO HER ABDOMEN.
SHE DECLINED MEDICAL ATTENTION.
SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO BE HOSPITALIZED OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
CPS CONFIRMED THAT SHE IS A TEACHER AT A SCHOOL IN THE CITY, AND THAT THERE WILL BE PROVIDING ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE TO HER AND THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY .
>> STRAINS INCIDENT THAT I'LL
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