By Howard Packowitz
NORMAL – The sounds of gunfire rattled a neighborhood near Chiddix Junior High in Normal late Wednesday night.
It was the second shooting near the Illinois State University campus since early Saturday morning.
Normal Police were called about 11 p.m. Wednesday to an apartment complex in the 300 block of Taylor Street, between Walnut and Oak Streets.
No one was injured. ISU sophomore Matt White said he called police after hearing four gunshots.
“It was boom boom boom boom, all consecutive,” said White.
It startled us. We were at the dinner table, I was eating dinner, wasn’t expecting anything. I just heard the shots,” he added.
“About 10 minutes after all of that, we walked over here. They already taped off the crime scene,” White also said.
Police said they found shell casings and undisclosed property damage in a parking lot.
There have been no arrests.
Police declined comment whether there’s a connection to a report of shots fired at a party just after midnight Saturday at the Woodridge Apartments in the 700 block of North Adelaide Street in Normal.
Police found shell casings there, but no one was hurt.
Anyone with information about the shootings is asked to call Normal Police at 309-454-9535 or McLean County Crime Stoppers at 309-828-1111.
Howard Packowitz can be reached at [email protected]
