During the White Sox-Athletics game at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago on Friday, two women were injured in a shooting. One of the women reportedly brought the firearm into the stadium using her belly rolls.
As I reported on @ESPN1000 just now… the shooting at Guaranteed Rate Field during a #WhiteSox game was indeed an accidental discharge by one of the women “grazed” by the bullet. She reportedly snuck the gun in past metal detectors hiding it in the folds of her belly fat.
— Peggy Kusinski (@peggykusinski) August 29, 2023
The victims, aged 42 and 26, are recovering; the elder woman was shot in the leg and the younger suffered a graze wound on her abdomen.
If the woman did have the firearm buried in some rolls, a traditional metal detector would have been set off and additional screening should have taken place. However, this particular stadium seems to utilize a new technology to replace traditional metal detectors called Evolv, which we’re working on an extensive article about, as this new system has been shown to miss items such as firearms and knives.
