CHICAGO — A child was shot while his family headed to church on Sunday morning, Chicago police said.
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.
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A 7-year-old boy was among five people in a vehicle, on their way to church, police said. Someone inside saw another person in another parked vehicle belonging to family member.
When confronted, the person who had broken into the parked vehicle showed a rifle and opened fire, police said. One of the rounds fired struck vehicle the group was in, hitting the boy in his leg.
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The shooter then fled the scene, police said. Police officers, who were in the area, chased the alleged offender down and placed them in custody. Family members later positively identified the suspect as the person who shot the child.
The boy was initially taken to Roseland Hospital and was then transported to Comer Children’s Hospital, where he is stable, police said.
CPD encouraged anyone who observes another person breaking into or stealing their vehicle to call the police instead of confronting them.
On Friday night, 3-year-old Mateo Zastro was killed 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.
