Boy, 3, struck by stray bullet during armed robbery attempt on Chicago's Near West Side
CHICAGO (CBS) -- A 3-year-old boy was wounded by a stray bullet during an armed robbery attempt Saturday afternoon in the Little Italy neighborhood near the University of Illinois Chicago campus on the Near West Side.
Police said, around 4:50 p.m., a 20-year-old man was in a parking lot in the 1000 block of West 14th Street, when a gunman walked up and demanded his property.
The gunman then fired shots into the air, hitting a 3-year-old boy in a nearby apartment. The boy was taken to Stroger Hospital in fair condition, with a gunshot wound to his left ear.
The 20-year-old man was not injured.
According to unconfirmed police dispatch reports, witnesses said the gunman fled in a black Nissan.
No one was in custody Saturday evening.
Area 3 detectives were investigating.
