Possible gunshots reported near Elgin campsite area, Elgin IL
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WeaponsOfficers investigated possible gunshots near a campsite by train tracks at Elgin. They found an abandoned tent with no injuries or blood. The shots were believed to have been heard closer to the Elgin Sweeper facility.
Audio|Heard on: DuPage County Police Dispatch 1 - West
Listen to dispatch call
01:29
Transcript:
00:00
We're going to some sort of, what looks like a camping tent on the brush off the train tracks that we're going to check out.
00:07
All right. Four if you have a leader, you want to go up at him?
00:14
35 I'm right down the street I'll head over there okay I'll be on with three
00:27
All right, you three of five, that's up.
00:30
You're good.
00:33
Ernie Trail, Ernie Trail, and Geary,
00:36
with J. Juliet, C.
00:38
Charlie H. Hotel, (number withheld).
00:40
J.
00:41
C.H.
00:43
(number withheld) I believe it's out of Pennsylvania.
00:45
It's a two-door black Audi occupied time, too.
00:51
Topfar.
00:55
35. We just cleared the tents and the brush.
00:58
It's clear from the inside.
01:00
There's no sign of any blood or anyone that needs attention.
01:04
We'll just keep checking the area.
01:07
How old you make it out there with you guys yet?
01:10
Negative.
01:12
Okay.
01:18
It sounds like from what the complainants saying that this might have, the shots might have been heard more closer to where Elgin Sweeper is.
01:25
So on the Elgin side, we'll be heading over there now.
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Location mentioned:
W Bartlett Rd, Elgin, IL 60120
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