3 dead in shootout at Brighton Park drifting event as illegal ‘takeovers’ continue in Chicago. ‘It’s traumatizing the city.’

Tire marks from drifting cars can be seen in the intersection of Archer and Kedzie avenues, where five people were shot early Sunday morning. (Photo by Dave Struett)

Three people died and two were wounded in a shootout early Sunday at an intersection in Brighton Park, where drivers had taken over an intersection in one of several unauthorized drifting events overnight in Chicago, police said.

Police had been monitoring a “large car caravan” on surveillance video at Archer and Kedzie avenues on the Southwest Side with 100 drivers and people drifting in the intersection, Police Cmdr. Don Jerome told reporters at the scene.