3-year-old boy wounded by stray bullet during robbery attempt on Near West Side
A toddler was wounded by a stray bullet from an attempted robbery outside his family’s apartment near the University of Illinois Chicago on Saturday.
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A toddler was wounded by a stray bullet from an attempted robbery outside his family’s apartment near the University of Illinois Chicago on Saturday.
Police said a gunman fired a shot in the air during a robbery attempt, hitting a boy in a nearby apartment.
Fire crews arrived on the scene to treat the victim, who was then taken to UIC hospital, where he died.
Chicago police said the victim was in a fight inside a residence with a 34-year-old man who used a closed fist to strike the 66-year-old about the face.
In each of four incidents, the robber claimed to have a gun and handed the store or restaurant employee a handwritten note announcing a robbery.
The robberies took place in Little Italy and the South Loop.
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Both incidents come less than 24 hours after three people were killed in a mass shooting on the South Side.
The shootings in Little Italy and South Austin happened less than two hours apart.
The victims, 23, and 26, sitting in a parked car, in the 1300 block of South Throop Street around 2 a.m., when someone from a silver sedan fired shots, police said.
A 23-year-old man is in critical condition and a 26-year-old man is in fair condition.
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