Waukegan and Libertyville police are investigating separate shooting incidents this week, including a Tuesday road-rage encounter in which a man was shot in the leg.
None of the three people shot in the two incidents sustained life-threatening wounds, police said.
A 32-year-old Cicero man was shot by another motorist at about 6:15 p.m. Tuesday on Illinois Route 137 near O’Plaine Road in the Libertyville area, according to the Lake County sheriff’s police.
The victim told police that he may have cut off another motorist as they drove west on Route 137. The offender, police said, became enraged and pulled alongside the Cicero man and fired a pistol at his vehicle.
The man was hit in the leg and pulled into a gas station at the intersection of Route 137 and Milwaukee Avenue and called police. A sheriff’s officer applied a tourniquet until paramedics arrived and transported the man to a hospital.
Detectives are reviewing video surveillance and said they will release information about the offender’s vehicle when it becomes available. Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff’s office detective division at (847) 377-4000.
In the Waukegan incident, a man and a woman were wounded by gunfire at about 11:30 a.m. Monday in the 2100 block of Green Bay Road.
According to police, the two were parked in a lot talking to people in another car, and that someone in the other car fired at them.
The woman, 22, of Wadsworth, was struck in the arm, and her companion, a 23-year-old Gurnee man, suffered a graze wound. As they fled the lot, their car struck another vehicle, and that second vehicle was also hit by gunfire, police said. However, no one in that vehicle was hurt.
Police said they recovered 16 rifle and pistol shell casings at the scene. The incident remains under investigation.
