A 7-year-old was hurt in a Roseland, Chicago shooting on the Far South Side, the police department said. He was heading to church with his family.
A 7-year-old boy is at Comer Children's Hospital in stable condition after being shot in what, police said, was a car break-in turned violent.
The Far South Side shooting happened at about 11:21 a.m. in the Roseland neighborhood's 10800 block of South State Street, police said.A 7-year-old boy was among five people in a vehicle, heading to services at Universal Community M.B. Church, police said. As they were arriving, a relative saw a man going through his parked car.
That relative then confronted the suspect, police said. That's when the man shot a rifle in the family's direction, striking the 7-year-old in the leg.The shooter then fled the scene, police said. Police officers, who were in the area, chased the man down and placed him in custody. Family members later positively identified the suspect as the man who shot the child."I want to commend our 5th District officers for their quick response.
The boy was initially taken to Roseland Hospital and was then transported to Comer Children's Hospital, police said. CPD encouraged anyone who observes another person breaking into or stealing their vehicle to call the police instead of confronting them.in a shooting the police said was sparked by road rage on the Southwest Side as he sat in the back seat of his mother's vehicle in West Lawn.Copyright © 2022 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.
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