Two people—including a pregnant woman—were shot in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood, police confirmed Monday afternoon.
The victims, shot near the intersection of 53rd Street and Sangamon were identified by family as 23-year-old Crystal Myer and 25-year-old Albert Moore, a couple expecting their first child. Family outside of Stroger Hospital said the baby has been deliver and both parents remain in surgery.
Police say Moore is a documented gang member.
Andrew Holmes, a crisis responder, said this is the second in as many days he has responded to in the neighborhood, and that he saw Myer in the neighborhood Sunday.
“I remember this young lady who was shot today,” Holmes said of Myer. “She was here yesterday walking down the street crying, she is pregnant, so this is the same young lady that went into the house from yesterday and was hit by gunfire.”
Victoria Harden said she found Myer in the street about 3 p.m. Monday, called an ambulance and tried to comfort the woman.
“I see the lady on the ground and her family, like any family, are screaming and panicking,” Harden said. “So I just got on the ground and held the lady, she is pregnant, just talking to her and giving her some comforting words.”
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Tyler Thomas, Moore’s grandfather, said he thinks he saw the person who shot the couple.
“I was upstairs and I heard the shots and I looked out the window and I seen some guy running across the lot … and when I got downstairs … they was shot,” he said.
Holmes said this is just one of many shootings over a violent weekend.
“It’s terrible, for here, shooting all over the city,” he said. “It started yesterday evening until now—hasn’t stopped.”
