Chicago police say they continue to question a man arrested after the shooting on Saturday night near Millennium Park, one of Chicago’s most popular tourist destinations.
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Around 7:35 p.m., a 54-year-old man was walking with two women near the intersection of East Monroe Street and South Michigan Avenue when he got into a verbal altercation with another man, according to the Chicago Police Department. Fabbri was transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition where he later died.
There was an argument, a fight and then someone fired shots, hitting Fabbri at least twice.
Frankie Cortez, 18, was near the park and “saw blood on the ground and police everywhere”. “It’s just insane. The world is going insane”. “Stuff is continuing to happen, and you need to bring hope to the city and hope to America”.
“They kept screaming, ‘He’s unconscious!’ ” said Olson, a photographer visiting Chicago from Wisconsin.
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‘He threw one of his children off their bike, I chased him through the street, tried to hold the bike down, his girlfriend comes and punched me and ripped my shirt, ‘ she told ABC7. “We are all in shock”. The incident reportedly happened on the northeast corner of Michigan Ave. and Monroe St.
