A ride-share driver was wounded during an attempted carjacking on the West Side, and another man was hit in the head with a gun in a separate carjacking farther north overnight, Chicago police said.
About 10:10 p.m., a 51-year-old man was dropping off a ride-share customer in the 900 block of North Leclaire Avenue in the Austin neighborhood when three males approached on foot. The men took the driver’s phone and ordered him out of his vehicle, police said.
When the man refused he was shot in the chest, and was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.
In a statement, a representative from Uber called the shooting “sickening,” adding that the company was in contact with law enforcement and would assist with the investigation.
Shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday, a 28-year-old man was struck to the head with a gun in a carjacking at a gas station on the Northwest Side, police said.
The victim was at a station in the 6300 block of North Central Avenue when he was approached by two armed males who forced him out of his vehicle. One of them struck the man in the head with his weapon before both carjackers fled in the victim’s Audi SUV, police said.
The man was taken to Ascension Resurrection Hospital where he was listed in good condition.
No one was in custody for either incident and detectives were investigating.