Chicago City Wire

Interim Chicago Police Supt. Fred Waller this week publicly took the blame for not stopping an Aug. 25 White Sox game after two women in the stands were shot and wounded, according to published reports.

Waller told the Sun-Times that the game against the Oakland A's was allowed to continue due to a "miscommunication" with the team. He said rather than stop the game, White Sox officials contacted Major League Baseball leaders. "That should not have happened," the interim superintendent said. 

"We've taken some steps to make sure that ... we have the right people in place to delay or stop completely a game like that, so it won't happen again," Waller told the newspaper.

"We did not know exactly what we had on our hands. We didn't think it was an active shooter. But we didn't know."

Chicago police reported that a 42-year-old woman was shot in the leg, and was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center in fair condition. A 26-year-old woman also was shot, suffering a graze wound to the abdomen.

So far, police remain unsure whether the bullets that struck the women were fired inside or outside the stadium. No suspects have been identified, police said.

White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf said his team's internal investigation of an incident that left two women with gunshot wounds inside Guaranteed Rate Field lasts week has found "virtually no possibility that the gunshots came from within the ballpark."

Police say the investigation remains ongoing.