A 13-year-old girl was in critical condition Monday evening, July 25, after being shot in a backyard on Fowler Street. Evanston police ask anyone with information to contact them at 847-866-5000 or 5040.
Evanston Police Commander Ryan Glew and public information officer said the girls were taken to a local hospital, where she was listed in critical condition.
An EPD vehicle blocks the center of Fowler Street between Dempster and Greenwood shortly before 10:30 p.m. Monday. Credit: Alex Harrison
An EPD vehicle blocks the center of Fowler Street between Dempster and Greenwood shortly before 10:30 p.m. Monday. Glew alerted the public to the shooting in a series of seven tweets, between 8.19pm and 10.07pm, which say officers went to the Fowler Street yard around 6.20pm and found the girl with a gunshot wound when they arrived. .
The second tweet said, “Initial investigation revealed that an unknown offender fired a gun over a fence in a backyard that was occupied by several young teenagers,” and that the 13-year-old was the person known to she was hurt
Police have not made any arrests and are advising people who don’t live in the area to avoid it.
Just before 10.30pm on Monday, Fowler Street was still closed by EPD vehicles and a Northern Regional Major Crime Task Force (NORTAF) truck. was present
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