Crime & Safety

Violent Videos: Second Gun Attack on Set of Joliet Video Shoot in Less Than 2 Months Leaves 2 Wounded

Gunmen attacked a pair of men during the shooting of a video on McDonough Street.

A video wasn't the only thing shot on McDonough Street Saturday afternoon.

A pair of gunmen ambushed the set of a video shoot on McDonough near Des Plaines Street about 4:15 p.m. and wounded two.

It was the second such attack on the set of a video being shot on the city's east side in less than two months.

No one was injured in the earlier attack but police did arrest two men. Ernest Morgan, 18, and Jordan Hughes, 19, were both charged with using a firearm to commit an aggravated battery even though Morgan was the alleged wheelman in the March drive-by shooting.

Morgan was also charged with aggravated fleeing or eluding, reckless driving and obstructing a police officer. Hughes was hit with charges of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, criminal damage to property and possession of ammunition without a firearm owner's identification card, on top of the aggravated battery.

Morgan and Hughes allegedly targeted a crowd watching the production of a video outside a Richards Street grocery store.

At least one of the two men injured Saturday also was making a video, police said. The two shooters walked up on him and opened fire. He was hit in the leg.

The second man, who may or may not have been involved in the video shoot, according to police, was hit in the hand.

Both the wounded men are 28 years old, police said.

Officers responding to the shooting pulled over a silver car speeding from the scene. The driver turned out a friend of the man who had been shot in the leg. He was trying to get the wounded man to Presence St. Joseph Medical Center.

The man who was hit in the hand also was treated at St. Joseph's, police said. He fled after the shooting and apparently made it to the hospital on his own.

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