Updated: Bullet Strikes Home, Injures Woman

Updated at 5:23 p.m.

A woman was shot in the arm early Sunday after a bullet penetrated the walls of her home in the 300 block of McKool Avenue in a possibly gang-related shooting, police said.

A 29-year-old man from Addison was also struck as he walked down the sidewalk with another man at about 1:34 a.m. Sunday, according to a press release issued Tuesday afternoon by the .

The men were walking down the sidewalk when shots rang out, striking the 29-year-old Addison man in the right leg, while a second bullet penetrated the home, hitting the 54-year-old resident in her left arm, police said. A third bullet penetrated another home on the same block, according to the release, but did not hit anyone.

Both shooting victims were transported to Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital by the with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

A homeowner on a neighboring side street near McKool reported hearing unusual noises early Sunday, but did not realize it was gunfire.

“I didn’t even know,” she said. “It was just a strange noise that you wouldn’t normally hear.” The noise alarmed the homeowner enough that she and her husband checked outside to see what it could have been.

“We didn’t see anything, so we went to bed,” she said, adding it was “scary” to know a shooting occurred in the neighborhood.

According to the release, an investigation into the shooting indicates that it may have been gang related. 

Assistant Police Chief Steven Lucchesi said the offenders were believed to have initially been on foot, but may have fled the scene of the shooting in a vehicle, although he could not give a description of the car.

"There are leads that we're following up on," Lucchesi said, declining to comment on how many shooters may have been involved. "That's part of the investigation. ... There's very little we can release at this time." An investigation into the shooting is ongoing, he said.

Lucchesi said police are asking anyone who may have information on the shooting to contact the Romeoville Police Department at 815-886-7219.