7- year- old girl wounded in accidental shooting at home
A 7- year- old girl was wounded in an accidental shooting Sunday afternoon in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side, Chicago Police said.
Just after 3 p. m., the girl was inside a home in the 9100 block of South Blackstone when the “accidental discharge” happened, police said.
The girl was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where her condition stabilized, police said.
Officers recovered a handgun from the home, police said. Area South detectives were investigating, and the Department of Children and Family Services was notified, police said. Sun- TimesWire
8 dead, 11wounded in weekend gun violence
Eight people were killed, including a 64- year- old woman who was struck by a stray bullet, and at least 11 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday evening.
The 64- year- old woman, identified as Cynthia Trevillion, was killed when a stray bullet struck her about 6: 30 p. m. Friday in the 6900 block of North Glenwood in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
About 12: 30 p. m. Sunday in the South Side Gresham neighborhood, a 26- year- old man was shot in the chest and arm in the 8300 block of South Justine, according to Chicago Police. He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died.
About 11: 10 a. m., a 22- yearold man was fatally shot in the Jackson Park Highlands neighborhood on the South Side. He was shot in his chest, armand head in the 6700 block of South Jeffery, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Shortly after midnight Sunday in the Rosemoor neighborhood on the Far South Side, officers responded to a call of a person shot and found a 26- year- old woman unresponsive on a front porch in the 9600 block of South Forest. She had been shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Sun- TimesWire
Female dies in Ind. crash
A person was killed in a crash Sunday afternoon in northwest Indiana.
A medicolegal death investigation team responded at 1: 57 p. m. to the intersection of 45th and Cleveland in Gary, Indiana, where a female had been in a motor vehicle crash, according to the Lake County ( Ind.) coroner’s office. The female, age unknown, was pronounced dead at 3: 40 p. m., the coroner’s office said. Sun- TimesWire
CPD investigating infant death in Uptown
Chicago Police were conducting an investigation into the death of an infant girl who stopped breathing Sunday morning in the North Side Uptown neighborhood.
Officers responded about 6: 10 a. m. when the 5- monthold stopped breathing in the 4800 block of North Winthrop, according to Chicago Police. The girl was taken to Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 7: 35 a. m. Tom Schuba
Boy critically hurt after car plunges into Aurora retention pond
A 6- year- old boy was hospitalized in critical condition after an SUV plunged into a retention pond early Sunday in west suburban Aurora.
Officers responded about 2: 40 a. m. to the area of Diehl Road and Interstate 88 after the 31- year- old driver lost control of the Nissan Xterra and went into the retention pond on the south side of the roadway, according to Aurora police. When the driver got off I- 88 at Diehl, she lost control of the SUV, went through the intersection and wound up in the pond on the south side of the intersection.
Officers found the vehicle fully submerged in the pond, police said. The driver told officers they were on their way back to Cicero from a party in Aurora when the incident happened.
Four females— the 31- year- old driver and three passengers ages 21, 15 and 12— were able to get out of the car, but the boy became trapped, police said.
An Aurora Fire Department Dive Team found the vehicle and boy about 80 feet from shore and pulled the boy from the water about 3: 05 p. m., police said. Investigators believe he was in the water for about 30 minutes. He was taken to an Aurora Hospital in critical condition and later transferred to a Chicago hospital.
All five of the vehicle’s occupants are from Cicero, police said. Police said alcohol may be a factor, and charges were expected on Monday. It was not known whether weather played a role. Ashlee Rezin