Three-year-old Mateo Zastro was fatally shot while riding in the back seat of his mother's car in September 2022. A year and a half later, the case remains unsolved.
In 2022, road rage was reported in about 40% of the 140 Chicago-area expressway shootings handled by Illinois State Police. That is up from 12% in 2021, ISP says.
Though expressway shootings in the Chicago area continue to drop from the high numbers two years ago, when they do happen they are increasingly being sparked by.