DOLTON, Ill. (CBS) – Two people have been one wounded, one critically in a drive-by attack in Dolton near Thornridge High School.
Police say it happened just before 6:30 about a block from Thornridge High School where a basketball game was being held.
A group of guys ran to the school for help- two of them wounded in what they call an ambush.
“I saw a man, he was laying on the ground, I was with my friends and they were like, ‘man, he looks like he just got shot.’ He came up to the door and he’s like ‘Man I just got shot,’” said Mason Bolton, a Thornridge student.
She was at Thornridge High School for a basketball game when two wounded males and a group of others ran here for help after a shooting.
The group of men say they were walking when a black SUV or minivan approached and someone got out and ambushed them.
“They said no words were exchanged. One subject said they got out of the vehicle and just began shooting,” said Dolton Police Chief John Franklin.
Jacqueline Rice saw part of it unfold from her living room window.
“I heard four gunshots and then I looked out the window and I saw a police officer holding a guy right in front of my neighbor’s house,” said Rice.
Police say a 17-year-old and 20-year-old were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.
Although police escorted team members leaving the school, the shooting had nothing to with Thornridge.
“They ran back toward the school because it was well lit. Squad cars were parked out in front,” said Harry Blaudin of Dolton Police.
