When gunfire sounded as a 12-year-old boy rode through the Austin neighborhood Tuesday evening with his parents and infant sister, his mother told the whole family to duck.
Her 12-year-old old son suffered a graze wound to his head and was taken to a hospital in Maywood where he was listed in fair condition, Chicago police said.
Two persons of interest were later arrested after being captured on video running into a house nearby the scene.
According to a police report obtained by the Tribune, the boy and his family had just gotten off I-290 and were driving up North Leamington Avenue on their way to visit a relative nearby around 7 p.m. As the family sped away from the sound of the shots, the boy told his parents that he was OK, but bleeding, the report stated. Per the report, none of the rest of the boy’s family was hurt in the shooting, which the police later determined had happened on the 900 block of North Leamington Avenue.
The report said an Oak Park ambulance met the family near Oak Park Avenue and Augusta Boulevard and took the boy to Loyola Hospital, where Chicago police said he was in fair condition. A doctor who saw the child just after the shooting found that he had a fracture in his head, the report stated.
Austin District (15th) police found two bullet holes on the family’s car, which also had a shot-out driver’s side window and later arrested two men who appeared on surveillance footage running into the house on the block where the shooting took place, the report stated.
