Chicago ,IL : Two teenagers hurt in gang-related crash in Logan Square on early Saturday morning ,July 4th 2015

Two 17-year-old girls were hurt during a gang-related car crash early Saturday morning in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side, police said.

Around 1:45 a.m., several people in a Honda Accord and a Toyota were chasing each other, flashing gang signs, when both cars stopped in the 2600 block of North Troy Street, police said.

Two 17-year-old girls came out of the Honda and ran behind it. The driver of the Toyota then put his car in reverse and struck the Honda, which hit one of the girls and pinned the other, police said.

Both girls were taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. The girl who was pinned was stabilized, and the other girl had minor injuries, police said.

The two girls are documented gang members, police said.

At the scene of the crash, police officers blocked off about a block of Troy north of Logan Boulevard with yellow tape.

Inside the scene, a Toyota rested with some of its passenger doors wide open. Broken glass and debris lay in the middle of the street next to the car.

South of the scene, a group of paramedics rolled one of the girls on a stretcher into an ambulance that was parked at the intersection of Troy and Logan.

Several neighbors stood next to the yellow police tape, wondering what happened.

A couple of residents, unaware of police tape, tried to walk through the crime scene. Police shone flashlights and repeatedly told at least four residents why they couldn't pass.

One resident, who was on the north side of the scene, became upset he wasn't allowed to pass through and demanded the names of two officers who were guarding the crime scene. He was eventually escorted through the scene by a police officer.

Nearby neighbors and friends Joel Arroyo and Jessica Gamboa said they were chatting outside on a back porch when they heard the sound of the crash followed by screaming and a car accelerating away.

"There was a bunch of young men just running, just saying things to each other," said Arroyo, 26. "All you heard ... was glass shatter, people screaming"

The two stood with a dog on the north side of the scene. Gamboa said she was celebrating her 45th birthday earlier that night and was sad to see what happened near her home.

"I am not happy with everything that's going on in this world," Gamboa said. "Everybody is so full of pride, so hateful."

Gamboa, who grew up in Logan Square, said she went to school with


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