Two 12-year-old were injured in a shooting on Monday afternoon in the Grand Crossing neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, authorities said. The shooting was.
The 12 and 11-year-old boys were in a car in the 7800 block of South Escanaba Avenue about 1:43 p.m. when a black sedan started to chase them and someone in the vehicle fired shots at them, police said. One boy is hospitalized in serious condition; the other in good condition.
Hours after two boys, 12 and 14, were shot Monday afternoon, police arrested the teen and an adult after finding a stolen car linked to the shootings nearby. Charges were pending against the adult.
A young Venezuelan migrant boy living at a Chicago shelter died from sepsis and a bacterial infection that causes strep throat, an autopsy released Friday shows.