Belmont Cragin shooting: 13-month-old baby grazed by bullet while sitting in car, police say

It occurred in the course of the intersection of Linder and Wrightwood simply after 6 p.m., Chicago police mentioned.

The 13-month-old child was within the backseat of a car when she was grazed by a bullet within the head or neck, officers mentioned.

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The kid was pushed, doubtless in the identical car she was driving in, to Lurie Youngsters’s Hospital, the place she stays hospitalized in good situation.

Had the bullet traveled an inch in a distinct route, it might have been a a lot completely different end result. Close by residents have been upset to listen to of such a younger gunshot sufferer.

“That is powerful, you already know,” Belmont Cragin resident Jaiden Rodriguez mentioned. “You do not do not need to see that occur to anyone, and the truth that it occurred to anyone so younger, I hope that she’s okay, and prayers out to the household.

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It got here on the heels of one other capturing Thursday evening that significantly wounded 4 individuals, together with an 11-year-old boy, who was shot within the thigh. He’s anticipated to recuperate.

Not less than 53 juveniles have been shot in Chicago thus far this 12 months, in keeping with police information. It is a slight lower, by lower than a handful of shootings, from the identical interval final 12 months.

Up to now, nobody is in custody. Space 5 detectives are investigating.