Crazed idiot runs up Skyway and starts shooting at cars Skyway closed

The sunroof on Lamont Clark’s car shattered just after he crossed the Indiana – Illinois border on his way home from buying cigarettes Wednesday night.

“We thought we had gotten hit by a car, we felt glass. I said ‘pull over, pull over, pull over’ … and we looked up and the sun roof was totally smashed in,” he told WGN-TV. “We don’t know if it was a gun, some people said it was a BB-gun. We’re not sure. We don’t know.”
Clark said his car was the sixth that pulled over after suffering damage from what police initially believed to be gunfire.

Police responded to a shots fired call in the area of 105th Street and Indianapolis Avenue about 8:40 p.m., police said. Chicago police, along with state troopers in Illinois and Indiana, shut down the Skyway for about two hours Wednesday night to conduct a manhunt along the road.

The projectiels that damaged Clark’s car and others turned out to be rocks, police said. A small pile of stones was found near the scene and police weren’t able to locate any ballistic evidence to suggest a gun was used, police said. The intersection is about 500 feet from Indiana.

Early reports from police said six or seven cars were hit by bullets. Police later said seven windshields were damaged by rocks. Nobody was injured.

The reports brought a massive police response to the area. As the incident wound down, more than a dozen marked and unmarked squad cars sat on 100th Street between Ewing Avenue and and Avenue J. About 10 officers congregated near the intersection of 100th Street and Avenue J, some of them wearing olive-green SWAT uniforms.

Police opened the Skyway to traffic in both directions about 11:05 p.m. Officers appeared to be leaving the area about 11:20 p.m. Chicago police initially shut down the Skyway between 99th and 106th Streets but Illinois State Police shut down access to the Skyway from the Dan Ryan Expressway about 9:40 p.m.


Nobody is in custody, and Area South detectives are continuing their investigation