A 2-year-old boy and a man in his 20s were killed and a pregnant woman was wounded when a gunman opened fire as they drove down an alley in Lawndale Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.
Superintendent Eddie Johnson had said paramedics were able to revive the boy on the scene but he was pronounced dead when he arrived at Stroger Hospital, authorities said.
A 25-year-old man in the car was shot in the head and died, police said. A woman — identified by police as the man’s girlfriend and the toddler’s aunt — was shot in the abdomen and was listed in fair condition at Mount Sinai Hospital, police said.
Police said the woman, 25, is pregnant and her baby was also in fair condition.
Police said a car had passed the couple’s car and a gunman got out and opened fire in the alley, behind an AC Delco Auto Electronics shop.
No one was in custody, but investigators suspect the man was the intended target.
"We have very promising leads, we have video. There’s no doubt in my mind that we’ll find him," Johnson said.
A neighbor in his early 50s said the child was bleeding from his abdomen and the man in the car was not moving.
“The young lady was just hollering about her baby, she had blood from her stomach,” he said.
Police surrounded an older model maroon four-door car in the alley. It had come to rest against an iron fence in the alley, its two front doors open.
Toddler, adult killed in Lawndale shooting
An adult and a child are dead and a third person was wounded in a shooting in the 2300 block of S. Kenneth Avenue in Chicago. Feb. 14, 2017. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
An adult and a child are dead and a third person was wounded in a shooting in the 2300 block of S. Kenneth Avenue in Chicago. Feb. 14, 2017. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
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The three entrances to the alley were blocked off, as were streets around the scene. Neighbors poked their heads from their porches.
Motorists fought through afternoon rush hour traffic along Ogden as news vans parked on the south side of the street, and a TV helicopter buzzed overhead.
At Stroger, family members slowly arrived to Stroger throughout the afternoon. A woman in a pink hat ran up to the ambulance and a man paced outside the emergency room speaking on the phone.
A little before 4 p.m., a large group of family members and friends stood outside the hospital, some hugging each other, when a woman suddenly ran across the parking lot in tears. Two people ran after her and hugged her as she shouted.
The boy was the second child to die Tuesday from Chicago gunfire. Takiya Holmes, 11, died Tuesday morning from wounds suffered in a shooting Saturday.
A second girl wounded over the weekend, Kanari Gentry Bowers, 12, remained in critical condition and on life support Tuesday.
Minutes after the triple shooting, police were sent to the 3400 block of West Walnut Street and North Homan Avenue where one man was shot.
Earlier Tuesday, a 30-year-old man was fatally shot in the chest in 4100 block of West 18th Street around 9:30 a.m., according to police. The man was dead on arrival at Mount Sinai Hospital, according to police. Police were releasing no details on the homicide.
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