CHICAGO – The man shot Friday afternoon while sitting in the parking lot of an Uptown McDonald’s has died.
Randy Joiner, 45, of the first block of East 57th Street, died Friday at 5:15 p.m., about 90 minutes after the shooting, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Joiner was sitting in a car on the restaurant lot at 1004 West Wilson when two men came up, and one started shooting around 3:45 p.m., police said. He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the head.
Officers on the scene described the two suspects as black males in their late teens. One was about 6 feet tall and was wearing a black baseball hat, a dark hoodie over an orange or red T-shirt and black pants. The other was about 6 feet tall and was wearing a white hoodie, black pants and white shoes. Both were seen heading south on Sheridan after the shooting.
Last Sunday evening, two men were shot in the 4900 block of North Sheridan when three gunmen opened fire near Buttercup Park. CPD said a 30-year-old man was sitting in the lobby of an apartment building and a 39-year-old man was walking when the gunmen opened fire around 6:14 p.m.
Police did not release descriptions of the suspects on Sunday and it is unclear whether the victims were the intended targets.
Friday’s victim is the fourteenth person shot in Uptown this year. One of this year’s victims died. Here’s how that compares to the October 18 statistics from past years:
2023: 19 shots, none fatal
2022: 14 shots, 5 fatal
2021: 16 shots, 1 fatal
2020: 14 shots, 4 fatal
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