Chicago: Fourteen people were injured, one person was being questioned and additional suspects were being sought after gunfire erupted outside a funeral home on Chicago’s South Side where at least one squad car was present, police officials said on Tuesday.
First Deputy Superintendent Eric Carter said mourners outside a funeral home were fired upon from a passing SUV.
Carter said several targets of the shooting returned fire.
The SUV later crashed and the occupants fled in several directions. Carter said all the victims were adults.
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A person of interest was being questioned on Tuesday night but no arrests had been made, said police spokesman Hector Alfaro.
The victims were taken by the Chicago Fire Department to nearby hospitals in serious condition, said spokesman Larry Langford.
Carter said at least 60 shell casings were found at the scene of the shooting.
It wasn’t immediately known if anyone other than attendees of the funeral were victims, nor if anyone in the SUV had been wounded. The person being questioned was uninjured, according to authorities.
Investigators haven't determined how many people were involved in the shooting.
(AP)
