Shorewood Shooting On Route 59, Police Look For Gunman

SHOREWOOD, IL — Shorewood police are looking for the gunman who fired several bullets into a Dodge SUV along southbound Route 59 on Saturday morning. The gunfire continued on Route 52. Nobody was injured, according to Shorewood Deputy Police Chief Jason Barten.

The gunman drove a white Chevy Malibu and was last seen heading west along Route 52, which is West Jefferson Street. Shorewood police described the gunman as a young black man in his early to mid 20s with short-length dreadlocks. He had a small black semi-automatic gun, police said.

Around 10:30 a.m., a white Dodge sports utility vehicle and a white Chevrolet Malibu were driving south along Route 59 through Shorewood. As the two vehicles approached the intersection at Route 52, the SUV was stopped in the outside lane of Route 59, police reports show.

"The Chevrolet passed all southbound traffic in the center median of Route 59 as the driver fired several shots from the inside of the vehicle towards the Dodge striking the Dodge several times," the Shorewood Police Department announced.

Next, the gunman driving the Chevrolet Malibu "maneuvered his vehicle from the center median into oncoming northbound Route 59 traffic before pursuing the Dodge on westbound Route 52 where one additional shot was fired," police reports show.

Barten told Patch that police do not have any information about the gunman's license plates, yet.

If anybody can help the Shorewood Police Department in identifying the shooter or the gunman's white Chevrolet Malibu, you are asked to call police at 815-725-4636.