BLOOMINGDALE, Ill. — One man was killed and at least five people were wounded after a shooting early Saturday at a suburban Chicago hotel, authorities said.
Officers responded to the Indian Lakes Hotel in Bloomingdale, Illinois, at 2:35 a.m. after receiving reports of shots fired on the fifth floor, the Bloomingdale Police Department stated in a news release.
Officers arriving on the scene saw several people fleeing the hotel and then found “multiple apparent gunshot victims,” police said.
Bloomingdale Public Safety Director Frank Giammarese said a man in his 20s was taken to an area hospital by friends, where he later died, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The victim was later identified as James McGill Jr., 27, who was pronounced dead at 3:16 a.m., WMAQ reported.
Bloomingdale Public Safety Director Frank Giammarese said the injured people were taken to area hospitals, WLS reported. There was no update on their conditions, the television station reported.
According to an investigation by the mayor’s office, there were no security officers on duty at the time of the shooting, WMAQ reported.
Giammarese said the incident occurred during “some type of large get-together” among guests at the hotel, but it was unclear what sparked the shooting. He said there have been “ongoing concerns” about large gatherings at the hotel in the recent past.
“This is not the first time we’ve been called out there,” Giammarese told the Tribune.
A statement released by the village of Bloomingdale said officials for several years have “shared concerns” numerous times with hotel management, First Hospitality Group, about “the lack of consistent security presence at the hotel and the failure of First Hospitality to properly manage the property.”
“We are now in the process of initiating legal proceedings to eliminate this threat to our community,” Mayor Franco Coladipietro said in the statement.
The hotel remains closed, police said.