4-Year-Old Grazed By Bullet, 3-Year-Old Hurt By Shattered Glass In Brighton Park Shooting
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Four people, including two children, were wounded late Tuesday night when a shooter opened fire on a car at a gas station in the Brighton Park neighborhood.
Police said two teenagers and two children had pulled up to a pump at the GoLo gas station in the 3500 block of South California Avenue around 10:45 p.m., when someone in a dark-colored SUV shot up their Toyota.
An 18-year-old man was shot in the right hand, a 17-year-old boy was shot in the back, and a 4-year-old boy suffered a graze wound to his left forearm. A 4-year-old girl suffered injuries to her face from shattered glass.
The driver, in an attempt to escape, drove on the sidewalk and struck a car before heading south to 38th and south Francisco, where paramedics arrived and took the injured to hospitals.
The 17-year-old was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition. The other victims' injuries were not considered to be life-threatening.
"It's just so disrespectful that you can discharge a weapon into this vehicle, and the children have to suffer; not only the children, but the individuals that was inside of this car," crisis responder Andrew Holmes said. "They are very, very lucky these kids are still living."
The shooting might have been caught on surveillance cameras at the gas station.
No one was in custody Wednesday morning. Area Central detectives were investigating.