Chicago shooting: No bail for man charged with wounding 3-year-old in face on West Side

CHICAGO — A mom had simply parked her automotive exterior her West Garfield Park dwelling final month when a gunman opened hearth and struck her 3-year-old youngster in his face, Prepare dinner County prosecutors stated in courtroom Friday.

Andy Wallace, 35, was arrested Thursday in Cicero and charged with tried homicide, aggravated battery and aggravated discharge of a firearm within the Feb. 22 capturing.

That morning, the 28-year-old mom had simply completed parking her Audi within the 3400 block of West Congress Parkway, prosecutors stated.

However earlier than she might take away her youngster from the backseat, a white SUV pulled up and Wallace leaned out of an open rear passenger door and fired at her automotive, prosecutors stated.

Bullets pierced her automotive’s windshield, hood, doorways and the driving force door mirror. The white SUV sped off and stopped down the road below a viaduct, prosecutors stated.

The mom seemed to her youngster and noticed a gunshot wound close to his eye. She sped off within the automotive to Stroger Hospital, the place medical doctors eliminated a bullet fragment from under the kid’s eye.

Officers canvassed the crime scene and realized the attainable shooter was possible Wallace, whom folks have been capable of establish on social media, prosecutors stated. Investigators met the mom on the hospital and he or she allegedly recognized Wallace in a photograph lineup. She had acknowledged Wallace as somebody from the neighborhood.

Prosecutors didn’t provide a attainable motive behind the capturing.

Space residents collect to protest Chicago violence towards youngsters, ladies in 2022 up to now

Wallace has 11 earlier felony convictions, most of them drug-related. He was convicted of aggravated illegal use of a weapon in 2008, and convicted of theft as a juvenile in 1999.

On the time of the capturing, Wallace was on bond for a pending manufacture/supply of fentanyl case, prosecutors stated.

Wallace’s lawyer stated this case hinges on the identification made by the mom, which might be referred to as into query.

Decide David Navarro stated that, whereas there might not corroborating proof, “I do suppose the presumption is nice that you just did commit the offense.”

Navarro ordered him held with out bail.

(Source: Solar-Instances Media Wire – Copyright Chicago Solar-Instances 2022.)