Civil trial in White Sox bleachers shooting set for January

Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune on Sep 3, 2026

Published in Baseball

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CHICAGO — More than three years after a mysterious shooting during a White Sox home game left two women injured in the bleachers, the singular question — “How were they shot?” — may soon have an answer.

While White Sox players and coaches will be enjoying the offseason, attorneys for the team will be at the Richard J. Daley Center for the trial. Originally planned for last month, it is now scheduled to begin Jan. 4.

During a status hearing Thursday, attorneys for the White Sox and the injured women told a Cook County judge that requests to admit evidence were completed, and that expert witness depositions will be concluded before the end of the year.

A White Sox team attorney said, too, that the team will soon file motions for summary judgment in both lawsuits, which were consolidated pretrial.

The women who were wounded in the Aug. 25, 2023, shooting allege the gunfire happened inside the stadium during the fourth inning. The White Sox have steadfastly denied that’s the case, saying in court filings: “The record, including findings that the Chicago Police Department developed independently, strongly indicates that the bullet originated from outside the Ballpark.”

Several depositions have taken place, including that of White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf and the team’s director of event security, who also denied there was a gun in the ballpark. “Respondents operate under the strictest magnetometer sensitivity settings that Major League Baseball issued,” he told lawyers, and “every person entering the Ballpark passed through those magnetometers on the day of the incident, and that no firearm had ever (moved) past Ballpark security.”

Though there are three plaintiffs suing the team over alleged injuries, CPD records indicate only two people suffered gunshot wounds.

Court filings show the Chicago Police Department previously received a subpoena to allow for the inspection of evidence collected at the crime scene, including a bullet fragment, blood swabs and articles of clothing worn by a Jane Doe.

Chicago sports radio host Peggy Kusinski was also deposed, records show. Shortly after the shooting, Kusinski, without citing sources, posted on social media that one of the victims “reportedly snuck the gun in past metal detectors hiding it in the folds of her belly fat.”