* News-Star Police Blotter, The 'Crime is Down' Report

BATTERY
• A 22-year-old Wilmette man was shot in the shoulder while stopped in his car at an intersection on the 7500 block North Hoyne Avenue around 3:30 a.m. Nov. 6. The victim told police that a mid-1990s model, gold Ford Taurus followed his car to the stop sign at Hoyne and Jarvis. The Taurus pulled alongside the victim's driver's side. A man in his early 20s who was sitting in the rear passenger seat displayed a handgun and fired two shots at the victim, hitting him the shoulder. The Taurus fled north on Hoyne. The victim then drove himself to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston where emergency medical staff contacted police. The victim was listed in stable condition. The three passengers in the Taurus were described as males in their early 20s. Police canvassed the neighborhood with negative results. The police report said the victim was {cough-cough} a gang member.

• Two males in their late teens robbed two women at gunpoint on the 1400 block of West Albion around 9:45 p.m. Nov. 9. The 19- and 20-year-old victims told police they were entering the courtyard of their apartment building when the two youths approached them from behind and forcibly grabbed their purses. The victims pulled away and one of the youths displayed a silver revolver and grabbed their purses which contained $50 cash, an iPod, ID and clothing.

• A 21-year-old man was jumped by three males in their mid-teens on the 1300 block of North Loyola Avenue around 4:45 p.m. Nov. 8. One of the teens displayed a handgun and asked the victim for his money. When the victim tried to escape, two of the teens pushed the victim to the ground and began punching and kicking his body. The teen with the gun tried to get into the victim's pockets. The victim tried to escape again, but was pistol-whipped around his face. All three youths fled without getting anything. The victim told police that a female in her late teens who accompanied the three male teens, stood and watched.

• A 23-year-old man was robbed as he was about to enter his building on the 7000 block of North Paulina Avenue around 5:30 p.m. Nov. 8, when a man in his 30s approached and sprayed something in his eyes. The man took the victim's wallet and house keys before fleeing northbound on Paulina in a Cadillac. The victim was taken to St. Francis Hospital where he was treated and released. The victim's wallet did not contain any money.

BURGLARY
• A 44-year-old man who owns a building on the 1700 block of West Pratt Street told police he received a call from a witness who told him that someone had broken into a vacant apartment sometime before 11 a.m. Nov. 10. The victim found two of the units storm windows missing, graffiti on the refrigerator and holes in the wall.