Chicago Police Investigating Recent Surge In Paintball Attacks

Paintball attacks are still happening in Chicago.

Police received reports of three more paintball shootings late Tuesday night (October 20) into Wednesday morning (October 21), NBC Chicago reported Wednesday. Recent shootings began around 10 p.m., spanning until about 1:20 a.m.

Last week, law enforcement officers and eye doctors in the area noticed an uptick in paintball shootings — as many as eight injuries in one weekend — which local eye surgeons warned can be “severely damaging to eyes.”

"It is very rare to see seven to eight severe eye injuries of any sort within a weekend, much less of the same kind," Ophthalmologist Dr. Hassan Shah told ABC7Chicago at the time. "These injuries do range from bleeding inside the eye and vision loss to where the eye actually ruptures — and we saw that whole range during this weekend…High velocity paintball injuries can be severely damaging to eyes and it will often result in permanent vision loss.”

Overnight, two of the attacks happened a few blocks from one another. Victims were a man, 34, riding his bike, a man walking a dog, and a woman, 61, on the sidewalk. The two men were shot by someone in a white sedan, and the woman was shot by someone in a red SUV, according to NBC Chicago.

Police are still investigating the surge in paintball attacks.

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