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8-Year-Old Boy Shot While Riding In Car On South Side

CHICAGO (CBS) -- An 8-year-old boy is recovering after he was shot in the leg on Chicago's South Side early Sunday morning.

Just after 1 a.m., the boy was riding in a car with a 28-year-old man in the 2000 block of West 83rd Street when someone in a black SUV shot them.

The man was hit in the back. He was treated and released from a hospital.

The boy was take to Advocate Christ Medical Center in good condition with a gunshot wound to his left leg.

No one is in custody.

Area Two detectives are investigating.

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