Mother speaks out after 13-year-old shot in head in ‘random’ SW Side shooting

CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago police introduced costs in opposition to two folks Friday morning after a 13-year-old boy was shot whereas celebrating his grandmother’s birthday Tuesday on the town’s Southwest Facet.

Isaiah Renteria, 22, and Pedro Molina, 23, have been charged with 5 felony counts of tried first-degree homicide, police stated.

The boy shot was left in “extraordinarily” crucial situation after being shot within the head throughout an obvious “random act of violence,” based on police.

The teenager’s mom spoke to ABC7 Chicago Friday and stated her son continues to be recovering. She stated that he has opened his eyes and is responding to the voices of relations who stay by his bedside.

“He is, nicely, responsive. He is aware of who everyone is and hopefully he will probably be with us,” she stated.

The boy and his uncle had been returning to a household celebration within the 1800-block of West twenty first Place within the metropolis’s Coronary heart of Chicago neighborhood after they noticed three vehicles circling the realm, Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan advised reporters at police headquarters Wednesday.

Detectives stated the difficulty started round 10:30 p.m., shortly after the elementary college scholar and his 21-year-old uncle walked again to the celebration after going to a close-by retailer to purchase a recreation and seen the autos.

Two folks then fired photographs from a close-by alley, hanging the boy.

“I assumed they had been fireworks. The following factor I do know, they began screaming my son’s title,” the teenager’s mom recalled.

The boy’s uncle, who’s a conceal carry license holder, returned fireplace however does not suppose he shot anybody.

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“I seen my son on the ground. He was nonetheless making an attempt to stand up and holding his head,” the boy’s mom added.

The boy was hit in the fitting facet of the top and was rushed to Stroger Hospital, police stated. He remained in “extraordinarily” crucial situation, Deenihan stated.

“It seems like these unhealthy guys had been searching for somebody to shoot and stumbled on these folks and did so,” Deenihan added.

Officers tried stopping one of many vehicles that was seen circling the block nevertheless it “fled at a excessive charge of pace,” Deenihan stated. A police helicopter tracked it to Hinsdale, the place native law enforcement officials stopped it and took three folks into custody.

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“That is simply extraordinarily tragic,” Deenihan stated. “The folks we now have in custody are gang members. We imagine that they had been simply capturing at this particular person as a result of they did not acknowledge him from the neighborhood.”

Investigators say neither the boy nor his uncle have any gang affiliations.

The Solar-Occasions Media report contributed to this put up.