Bullet Pierces Illinois Ambulance While Patient Being Treated

May 18—Somebody fired a gun into an ambulance while paramedics were treating a patient Sunday evening in the Englewood neighborhood, according to police and fire department officials.

At 5:35 p.m., paramedics were sent to the 5600 block of South Bishop Street for a traffic crash. But when they got there, they found an ambulance with its driver's side front window shattered, said Will Knight, a spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department.

"A large caliber slug was noted on the floor inside the cab,'' Knight said in an emailed statement.

The shooting happened as two paramedics inside the ambulance, which was not involved in a crash, were treating a person who suffered shortness of breath, Knight said.

No one was shot, he said.

Police are investigating the incident.

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