A 12-year-old boy was hospitalized after suffering multiple gunshot wounds in the Little Village neighorhood this afternoon as he was playing outside, according to family and police officials.
The boy was one of at least five people shot Saturday during three separate incidents.
The shooting happened in the 2800 block of West 23rd Street when he was shot in the arm about 3 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Joshua Purkiss.Police initially said the boy was 14-years-old.
The boy's great-aunt, Anna Enriquez, 58, said the family had been at Harrison Park earlier in the day for the boy's baseball practice. When they got home, the boy, who they call J.J., showered and went across the street to play with friends, Enriquez said.
About two hours later, Enriquez and the boy's grandmother were outside playing with the boy's younger brother when they were alerted that J.J. had been shot across the street, Enriquez said.
When Enriquez and her sister, the boy's grandmother, ran across the street they saw J.J. on the ground in the gangway behind a house.
"He was laying down screaming," she said. "I saw blood on the back of his neck and all over his clothes."
J.J. who lives on the block with his grandparents, was shot once in each arm and once in the neck, she said. She was told that his condition had stabilized, Enriquez said.
At about 6:15 p.m., officials said a 23-year-old man was shot on the 6600 block of South Greenwood Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood. The man took himself to Jackson Park Hospital where his condition had stabilized, officials said.
The boy's great-aunt, Anna Enriquez, 58, said the family had been at Harrison Park earlier in the day for the boy's baseball practice. When they got home, the boy, who they call J.J., showered and went across the street to play with friends, Enriquez said.
About two hours later, Enriquez and the boy's grandmother were outside playing with the boy's younger brother when they were alerted that J.J. had been shot across the street, Enriquez said.
When Enriquez and her sister, the boy's grandmother, ran across the street they saw J.J. on the ground in the gangway behind a house.
"He was laying down screaming," she said. "I saw blood on the back of his neck and all over his clothes."
J.J. who lives on the block with his grandparents, was shot once in each arm and once in the neck, she said. She was told that his condition had stabilized, Enriquez said.
At about 6:15 p.m., officials said a 23-year-old man was shot on the 6600 block of South Greenwood Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood. The man took himself to Jackson Park Hospital where his condition had stabilized, officials said.
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