A Gun Violence Leaves 3 Year Old Boy Critically Wounded

A gun violence igniting the streets of Chicago
caught a 3-year-old boy in the cross fire early
Saturday morning, local police said.

The child is in critical condition .
The boy was with his mother and another man,
in the city’s Brighton Park neighborhood, when
the shooting occurred outside a home on South
Sacramento Avenue, police told CNN Chicago
affiliate WLS.
The woman told investigators that three people
— two women and a man — walked past them,
and the man opened fire when they reached
the end of the block.
Medical personal rushed the toddler to Mt. Sinai
Hospital with gunshot wounds in his right hip
and stomach, hospital officials said.
Police continue to investigate whether the
shooting is gang-related.
This latest episode comes less than 24 hours
after a shooter sprayed bullets outside a
convenience store on the city’s West Side, killing
12-year-old Samuel Walker and wounding six
others.
Samuel had just finished a day at summer
school Friday and stopped at the store, probably
to buy a snack, when he was shot, his aunt
Maribell Ruiz told CNN affiliate WLS.
“He was like a little man in the house,” she said.
“He helped his mother. He helped everybody.”