New Chicago police video displays chaotic scene as 2 gunmen on Wabash Avenue Bridge appear to fatally shoot ma

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New Chicago police video displays chaotic scene as 2 gunmen on Wabash Avenue Bridge appear to fatally shoot ma

Chicago Tribune

Jul 22, 2020 6:12 PM

Two gunmen, shown on the right in this video still, shoot guns off the Wabash Avenue Bridge. The shooting left a 35-year-old Maywood man dead and a 25-year-old woman injured.

Two gunmen, shown on the right in this video still, shoot guns off the Wabash Avenue Bridge. The shooting left a 35-year-old Maywood man dead and a 25-year-old woman injured. (Chicago Police Department)

Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying two gunmen shown in a video taken on the Wabash Avenue Bridge during a deadly downtown Chicago shooting where hundreds had gathered for a street party.

The attack left a 35-year-old Maywood man dead and a 25-year-old woman injured. They had been inside a car.

The video, a little more than three minutes long, begins with several people strolling back and forth across the bridge about 2:25 a.m. Sunday in the 300 block of North Wabash Avenue. Bright blue lights of a few police cars twinkle on a street nearby.

A cluster of about 10 young men walk to one end of the bridge and off camera and then appear back on screen.

A few in the group then seem to begin pacing, peering off the bridge and into the street, as one man dressed in black pants and a black T-shirt is seen pulling a gun and holding it in his right hand, its barrel to the ground.

Shortly after that, another man several yards behind him is highlighted by police in the video as a gunman.

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Moments later, a frenzied scene unfolds as another man points out to the street and appears to be showing something to the gunman in black.

Others on the bridge take cover as the man in black and the other gunman suddenly raise their right arms and begin aiming across the bridge and firing, before sprinting away.

The 35-year-old man, Gregory Crawford, of Maywood, was shot once in the neck and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died. The woman was shot twice in the left arm and taken to Northwestern, where she had been listed in good condition.

Police were still trying to identify the shooters and said they are to be considered armed and dangerous. If you see them or their vehicle: “Do not approach. Call 911,” a police alert said.

Anyone with information should contact Area Three detectives at 312-744-8261 or submit an anonymous tip at www.CPDTIP.com.

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