A 4-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded while riding in a minivan in the McKinley Park neighborhood Wednesday evening, police said.
The boy was one of seven people in the minivan traveling south near the intersection of West 31st Street and Ashland Avenue around 7:10 p.m., police said, when a passenger in another vehicle fired into the minivan from behind.
The boy was shot in the lower back and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said. The 23-year-old man driving the minivan and the other passengers weren’t injured.
Around 8 p.m., outside the UI Health emergency room, a woman in black scrubs leaned inside the back of a UIC police car to speak to children seated there. The university’s hospital was on a soft lockdown.
“It’ll be OK,” she said.
Officers closed the doors and the car sped off. A few feet away, crime scene tape wrapped around a gold minivan with one of its doors open. A child’s brown jacket and a small grey backpack were visible on one of the back seats. The back windshield was shattered, with a hole about eighteen inches long. The minivan was still running. A pair of UIC police officers peered into the hole in the back
There was no one in custody for the shooting Wednesday evening and Wentworth area detectives were investigating, police said.
A 4-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded while riding in a minivan in the McKinley Park neighborhood Wednesday evening, police said. The boy was one of seven people in the minivan traveling south near the intersection of West 31st Street and Ashland Avenue around 7:10 p.m., police said, when a passenger in another vehicle
A 4-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded while riding in a minivan in the McKinley Park neighborhood Wednesday evening, police said.
The boy was one of seven people in the minivan traveling south near the intersection of West 31st Street and Ashland Avenue around 7:10 p.m., police said, when a passenger in another vehicle fired into the minivan from behind.
The boy was shot in the lower back and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said. The 23-year-old man driving the minivan and the other passengers weren’t injured.
Around 8 p.m., outside the UI Health emergency room, a woman in black scrubs leaned inside the back of a UIC police car to speak to children seated there. The university’s hospital was on a soft lockdown.
“It’ll be OK,” she said.
Officers closed the doors and the car sped off. A few feet away, crime scene tape wrapped around a gold minivan with one of its doors open. A child’s brown jacket and a small grey backpack were visible on one of the back seats. The back windshield was shattered, with a hole about eighteen inches long. The minivan was still running. A pair of UIC police officers peered into the hole in the back
There was no one in custody for the shooting Wednesday evening and Wentworth area detectives were investigating, police said.
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