Woman injured after shots fired at CTA bus in Bronzeville, Chicago police say

CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least one person was injured after shots were fired at a CTA bus Friday afternoon on the city's South Side.

Witnesses say it appeared the gunman was firing at someone else on the bus, but instead shot another passenger. Video shows the daring shooting in broad daylight right as the bus was pulling into the bus stop while a nearby high school was being let out.

Chopper 7 was over intersection of East 39th Street and South King Drive in Bronzeville. A CTA bus was parked at the location with crime tape surrounding it.

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Chicago police confirmed a person on the street fired shots at the CTA bus around 3:30 p.m. in the 3900 block of South King Drive, right across the street from a Mariano's grocery store.

Gunfire was aimed at a CTA bus as video shows people running away and ducking for cover after a brazen shooting, prompting nearby Wendell Phillips High School to briefly go on lock down.

"As I'm hearing the shooting, because I was about to go get my kids, and I had ducked down," an anonymous witness said.

A 37-year-old woman on the CTA bus was shot in the leg. She was taken taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition, according to CPD.

"I heard a 'clap, clap' and we thought it was a car crash," said Andre Anthony, the owner of a nearby barbershop. "Just a week, two weeks ago, something had happened at the parking lot of the LA Fitness."

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"So, all of these different escalations of activity, of crime, of shooting, it plagues us," Anthony said.

Citizen App video showed the conscious 37-year-old passenger being wheeled off the CTA bus after she was shot. She is expected to survive.

Police say the gunman shot from outside the bus, right next door to Eric Lewis, a former Marine who saw the violence unfold.

"I don't think the lady was the target. I think it was probably somebody else... On the bus," Lewis said.

His military training then kicked in.

"I seen the young man with the gun in his hand, and I was trying to chase him," Lewis said. "He cut through the alley, through the gangway and cut through this alley, ran diagonally."

Lewis says the shooter was able to run away.

Multiple CPD squad car's could be seen rerouting traffic at the scene. Police had King Drive between Pershing and 40th Street closed off to traffic as they investigated.

So far, no arrests have been made.

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