A violent brawl at Chicago O’Hare’s Terminal 2 escalated into a shootout around 12:54 a.m. Wednesday morning, leaving a 25‑year‑old man wounded and disrupting airport operations for several hours.
The fight started at baggage claim and spilled out onto the street. Heated words escalated to violent blows, one assailant grabbed a weapon from their car and returned to open fire before returning to the vehicle.
One onlooker described “rapid fire—much like automatic gunfire” followed by a more than half a dozen individual shots as people scattered in all directions. Investigators found dozens of shell casings scattered around the area, perhaps as many as 57 bullet casings recovered by authorities.
Law enforcement locked down Terminal 2’s lower level arrivals area for several hours, disrupting traffic for about four hours. No arrests have been made. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson blamed availability of illegal firearms.
Some readers will consider this a dog bites man story, it’s gun violence in Chicago, but that doesn’t usually happen at the airport.
“Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson blamed availability of illegal firearms.” lol
I blame the unavailability of black parents (esp dads) during their youth
Not at all surprising, given America’s love affair with firearms and personal ownership of them. It’s a violent country. Always has been.
Hard to believe one could fire a weapon 57 times at a large airport and only wound one person, even at that late hour.
Zoiks, I just flew into ORD this Tuesday (as I do every month) !!! Not surprised to hear it was Terminal 2, Terminals 1 (United), 3 (primarily American) and 5 (International) are nice, excepting Concourse L in Terminal 3. In essence, Terminal 2 and Concourse L of Terminal 3 are the ghetto areas of ORD, low ceilings with dirty ceiling tiles and dated furnishings. Armed police would obviously make a difference in Baggage Claim, hate to see that it may has come to that.
From AI: Terminal 2 primarily serves United Express, some United flights, Air Canada, Alaska Airlines, and JetBlue.
I have successfully routed myself away from flying through ORD for many years.
The 13%.
Just 15%rs doing what they do !
15% of ALL VIOLENT crimes are committed by blacks under 30
70# of black kids don’t have dads in the home
If u don’t change culture it will keep going up
Just 15%rs doing what they do !
15% of ALL VIOLENT crimes are committed by blacks under 30
70# of black kids don’t have dads in the home
If u don’t change culture it will keep going up
Call al
@Gary: you knew this wasn’t really about flights yet your Texas self couldn’t pass up the chance to rile your racist base. I applaud you, you achieved your goal.
@Ray Gary didn’t mention race at all. In the immortal words of Shakespeare I believe “thou doth protest too much”. You can always choose to not read Gary’s posts if you’re afraid you’ll see things that aren’t there.
I can’t remember the last time there was a brawl at O’Hare, let alone gun shots. Good job by CPD. My Uber arrived at Terminal 3 around 7:30 that morning, and by that time everything was normal.
For a premium travel experience that engages the elevated experiences of an elite hub, please consider Delta and ATL, SLC, or MSP.
And for the ignorant “KL” (afraid to post your full name, sport?) Somewhere north of 95 percent of mass shooters are white males. Go down the list sometime, and enlighten us with your theory of how their parenting caused them to slaughter innocent people.
Yikes. Relieved no fatalities. Rather no violence at all but much much prefer people use Caution Wet Signs than guns if it comes to that.
@Matt You’re going to make @1990s day!
And this is why I never check bags.
This is sad and upsetting. Violence and crime is bad wherever it happens and by whomever commits it, regardless of their background or identity.
I’m with @LadyOlives, too many guns here.
@KL — You are what I would call a ‘proud racist’–no attempt at masking it. At least now we know to expect that from you. Will you use different names on here next time?
Unrelated, but where’s @Andy S these days?
@AngryFlier @J — Ah, the subtle, thinly-veiled racists. So, ‘13%’ and ‘15%’ is ‘code’ for black people? Not cool. AngryFlier, you post on here regularly, so at least now we know about you, too.
@Basil — You know exactly what @Ray was referring to. It was the three commenters I mentioned above and others like them, who Gary had to reasonably know a post like this would inspire. Unfortunately, an incident like this is inherently ‘red meat’ for haters and bigots–alas, it deals with an airport, so it is relevant to the community/industry. I remain grateful that Gary actually supports free speech, and so do I, even if I disagree passionately, as I do with KL, J, and AngryFlier here. So, each of us can choose to engage or ignore. Gary hopefully will not micromanage or ‘mute’ anyone, even those others (like OneTrippe) have repeatedly requested that in the past. As for me, I prefer to troll the trolls. You do you.
@Matt — Thank you for your service. As always, Keep Climbing!
@L737 — Indeed, Matt made my day.