1 Dead Among at Least 9 Shot in Shooting in Illinois Parking Lot

At least nine people were shot, one fatally, in a shooting just after midnight Sunday in Willowbrook, Ill., southwest of Chicago, fire officials said.

Around 12:30 a.m., shots were fired during “some kind of celebration” with hundreds of people in a shopping mall’s parking lot on Route 83, near Honeysuckle Rose Lane, in DuPage County, said Joe Ostrander, a battalion chief with the Tri-State Fire Protection District.

The firefighters who were called to the scene took 10 people to a hospital — nine who were shot and one who had a medical emergency, Chief Ostrander said. He added that he heard from the police that many more people had taken themselves to hospitals in the area, and that the number of victims was likely to rise. The DuPage County Sheriff’s Office was not immediately available for comment.

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