The two officers were taken as a precaution to Rush University Medical Center, according to police and fire officials.



Officers found two handguns at the scene, according to Sgt. Al Stinites, a police spokesman



The shooting occurred in a residential area filled with bungalows. Police blocked off George Street between Newland to New England Avenue as detectives surrounded an Infiniti sedan with at least five bullet holes in the back windshield. The back bumper was falling off and the license plate was left hanging from the car.



Detectives with flashlights searched nearby alleys. Later, they expanded the crime scene. Neighbors huddled outside, trying to piece together what happened.



One woman with a young boy said she heard the gunshots. "There wasn't time to count how many," she said in Spanish. "It was a lot."



The young boy told the woman he counted seven shots.



Another neighbor, Mynor Rodriguez, said he was watching television when he saw nearly a dozen police cars. He went outside and saw even more police cars. He and his 20-year-old daughter got in their car to drive closer to the crime scene.



He saw a car crashed into a parked car, and he saw paramedics putting a man who appeared to be unconscious into an ambulance.



Rodriguez has lived in the neighborhood since the 1990s and said he has seen the area change, but he suspected the people involved in the shooting didn't live in the neighborhood.



"You have the good and the bad," he said.



Tina LeNoue was dozing off in her bedroom when she heard gunfire.



"My second oldest daughter came running from the front bedroom into my bedroom saying, 'Mom, did you hear that? Did you hear that?' " LeNoue said. "I said, 'Yes, I heard it, hon.' "



She waited about 20 minutes before going outside, then later walked with a neighbor toward the scene.



She hasn't had problems in the neighborhood, though she did hear gunfire weeks ago. "It's kind of scary because it's close to home," she said.