CHICAGO — Chicago Police spokesman Frank Giancamilli says detectives are waiting to speak with a shooting victim who may have been videoing himself when he was shot multiple times.
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He says the 31-year-old man is sedated in a Chicago hospital Friday, a day after the shooting on the city’s South Side.
Police say the man in the hospital was shot and then the gunman fled.
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The video, shot at the location of Thursday’s shooting, shows a man looking into a camera he’s holding toward himself, talking and smiling. The man glances to the side, the camera falls and shots are heard. A person holding a gun is then seen firing multiple shots while the man is out of sight.
Giancamilli says detectives are working on confirming the video’s authenticity.
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