A Chicago gang has been wreaking havoc with paintball guns, targeting a woman walking her dog, a homeless woman sleeping on a park bench and diners at a sushi restaurant over the past several days.
Around 8.45 pm that night, according to Fox 32, there were two instances where pedestrians walking on the sidewalk in the 1800 and 2000 block of West Division Street were victimized.
'I definitely knew it was shooting of some kind, didn’t know if it was a gun, paintball gun, bb gun,' Taylor Mogged, who was walking her 7-month-old mini dachshund when she was attacked, told CBS Chicago.
She whipped around and saw a vehicle quickly drive away - she said her assailants were driving a dark-colored crossover, and a 'dude [was] hanging out the window with a gun.'
'I definitely knew it was shooting of some kind, didn’t know if it was a gun, paintball gun, bb gun,' said Mogged.
'I definitely knew it was shooting of some kind, didn’t know if it was a gun, paintball gun, bb gun,' said Taylor Mogged (pictured), who was struck in the back and missed by several more paintball pellets while she was walking her dog on Tuesday night
There were no injuries reported in any of Tuesday's attacks
'One woman got hit in the mouth. One of the ladies, who we think was pregnant, she got hit in the back,' said Brian Robinson of the attack at Sushi Taku on Tuesday night. 'Someone’s out there trying to instill fear and that’s the disappointing part about living in Chicago now'
'I could tell they were younger just by the fact that they were laughing - I could hear them when they were driving away they were laughing,' Mogged said of her attackers. She said that the shooters were driving a dark-colored crossover with a 'dude hanging out the window with a gun'
'I could tell they were younger just by the fact that they were laughing - I could hear them when they were driving away they were laughing.'
Mogged was struck in the back with one pellet, narrowly evading five more that whizzed past her face. Mogged told the outlet her small dog that'could have been severely injured' if she was shot.
Earlier, outdoor diners at the sushi restaurant near the intersection of Division and Wolcott Streets ducked for cover when a dark SUV pulled up and its occupants started shooting around 7.30 pm on Tuesday, according to NBC Chicago.
'Everyone was laying down and hiding under the tables,' Sushi Taku manager Angel Zhao told news outlets of the attac that took place around 7.30 pm at his restaurant. 'It’s very scary. A few of our customers left without eating because they were scared.'
'All you hear is psh-psh-psh-psh. That’s when everybody started screaming,' Brian Robinson, who was struck in the shoulder and the foot while dining at the restaurant, told CBS Chicago . 'We saw glass flying and people diving and ducking'
'Everyone was laying down and hiding under the tables,' Sushi Taku manager Angel Zhao told the outlet. 'It’s very scary. A few of our customers left without eating because they were scared.'
Zhao said one woman was struck in the foot and was bleeding from the wound, but no one was hospitalized.
'All you hear is psh-psh-psh-psh. That’s when everybody started screaming,' Brian Robinson, who was struck in the shoulder and the foot while dining at the restaurant, told CBS Chicago. 'We saw glass flying and people diving and ducking.'
'One woman got hit in the mouth. One of the ladies, who we think was pregnant, she got hit in the back,' Robinson said. 'Someone’s out there trying to instill fear and that’s the disappointing part about living in Chicago now.'
Later that evening, NBC reported, a cyclist was struck with paintballs by the unknown assailants.
Around 8.45 pm that night, according to Fox 32 , there were two instances where pedestrians walking on the sidewalk in the 1800 and 2000 block of West Division Street were victimized
There were no injuries reported in any of Tuesday's attacks.
This is not the first barrage of paintballing to hit Chicago - more than 280 paintball attacks were reported in the city last fall with an uptick in incidents as Halloween approached, NBC reported
Last Friday, however, a 45-year-old woman sleeping on a park bench in the 100 block of North Western Avenue was shot in the face with a paintball pellet, according to ABC 7 Chicago - she was taken to Stroger Hospital for her injuries.
This is not the first barrage of paintballings to hit Chicago - more than 280 paintball attacks were reported in the city last fall with an uptick in incidents as Halloween approached, NBC reported.
'It makes it kind of crazy that it’s 2021, as if there’s not enough going on,' one neighbor told NBC. 'I could be on a peaceful walk, and someone can shoot a paintball at me. That’s pretty scary.'
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