O'Hare airport shooting injures man outside terminal; window damaged: CPD

Video shows chaos unfold as gunshots heard outside airport

Video shows the chaotic moments gunfire erupted outside O’Hare airport.

CHICAGO (WLS) — A man was wounded in a shooting after several people got into a fight outside a terminal at O’Hare airport Wednesday morning, Chicago police said.

The shooting took place at about 12:54 a.m. on the street outside Terminal 2.

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Police said several men got into a fight near one of the baggage carousels.

The altercation quickly moved outside.

One witness told police one of the men got a weapon from a car, and opened fire before returning to the vehicle.

A 25-year-old man was shot twice in the lower body. He was taken to Lutheran General Hospital, where he was stable, police said.

Dozens of shell casings littered the crime scene, which shut down the terminal’s Arrivals area for hours, with law enforcement on scene.

In one video shared hundreds of times on social media, there are frenzied images of chaos before gunfire erupts.

One traveler said she was asleep at the time, when a bullet pierced the window just feet from where she was.

“I have no clue how I did not hear this, and when I woke up I saw all the cops,” traveler Raquel Barajas said. “I was terrified; so, I honestly, these ear plugs saved my life. Getting up would have made me more scared and put me in a worse scenario. So, I’m just really grateful to be alive right now.”

Another man staying at a nearby hotel said he heard the gunshots.

“I heard a bunch of rapid fire, and I opened up my curtain. And I looked, and I saw people scattering. And then I heard a bunch of individual pops, not sure how many for sure individual ones, but I would say half a dozen to a dozen,” James Van Schaick said.

As they returned from a trip to Arkansas Wednesday, Chicago natives John and Rose Sullivan say they are shocked but not surprised to learn about the morning’s violence.

No one else was injured. Police are interviewing a second person, and Area Five detectives are investigating.

Police have not said what led up to the fight.

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