Chicago shooting: Boy, 5, shot in head in Rogers Park days after starting school, family says

CHICAGO (WLS) — A five-year-old boy shot was shot within the head and critically injured in Rogers Park Sunday evening simply days after beginning his first day of faculty, his household mentioned.

Police mentioned the boy was taken in important situation after being shot whereas sitting in a automotive visiting his mom whereas saying goodbye to his father, who was additionally wounded within the capturing.

Thus far this yr, 238 minors have been shot in Chicago, with 32 killed.

The little boy, Devin McGregor, was shot within the head within the 7600-block of North Paulina Avenue in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood.

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His grandfather, Tervalon Sargent, mentioned the boy’s father, who Chicago police recognized as a 25-year-old man, was hit within the hand and shoulder when somebody inside a black Hyundai began capturing simply after 6 p.m.

“They have been saying goodbye. They have been going house so he can get able to go to high school,” Sargent mentioned. “They went to go see his father and any individual pulled up and began capturing.”

The boy’s grandfather mentioned the five-year-old was simply three days into his first yr of faculty and as an alternative of getting him prepared for his first full week. Household at the moment are praying and hoping docs can save his life.

“All I need my little man to do… he must combat as a result of we want him,” Sargent mentioned.

Sargent mentioned his daughter drove the daddy and son to St. Francis Hospital earlier than the boy was taken to Lurie Kids’s Hospital.

“My daughter actually was pulling out, seemed within the rearview mirror and he or she noticed my grandson attempting to breathe or no matter, and he or she took them out the seat and put them within the entrance along with her,” he mentioned.

Now as an alternative of getting him prepared for college, Sargent and his daughter prayed the kid will pull via the evening.

“All these youngsters wish to do is go to high school and play they usually cannot even try this. Then that is tousled. They can not even try this and it simply retains occurring. It simply retains occurring. We obtained to do one thing. We obtained to do one thing. We obtained to do one thing,” Sargent mentioned.

Chicago police mentioned nobody is in custody.

Thus far, from latest police stories, that is the twelfth minor shot within the metropolis within the final week.