Three people were arrested Wednesday night after a three-vehicle crash in the South Side’s Englewood neighborhood in which nine people were injured, authorities said. Police said that just before 10 p.m. Monroe District officers saw an occupant of a vehicle in the 1600 block of South Paulina Street open fire at a person on the sidewalk. When officers tried to stop the vehicle — which a fire department spokesman later said was a Nissan Pathfinder sports-utility vehicle — it sped away, eventually getting on the Dan Ryan Expressway and heading south. The Nissan exited and crashed into two other vehicles at 75th Street and Vincennes Avenue. Officers arrested three occupants of the SUV at the scene and recovered a weapon, police said. The crash involved the SUV, a BMW sedan and a church van, Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said. At least three people, including the driver, were in the church van, he added, but it was unclear how many people were in the other vehicles. Two men who were in the SUV were taken to a local hospital in serious-to-critical condition, Langford said. Five other people were taken to a local hospital in fair-to-serious condition and two others were transported in good condition. No pedestrians were hurt in the incident. Robert Campbell, assistant pastor of 1st Corinthian Baptist Church, 7500 S. Halsted St., said there were about a half-dozen people in the van, which was taking church choir members home after a rehearsal Wednesday evening. — Andrew L. Wang and Pat Curry
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9 hurt, 3 arrested after South Side chase, crash
