Boy, 5, dies days after US shooting

A FIVE-YEAR-OLD boy has died five days after being seriously hurt in a drive-by shooting on Chicago’s North Side.

Devin McGregor was pronounced dead on Thursday night at Lurie Children’s Hospital, police said.

Devin’s mother was buckling him into a car seat in the Rogers Park neighbourhood on Sunday evening when a car pulled alongside and someone inside opened fire. Devin was hit in the head and his father was shot in a hand and shoulder.

Police have not provided a motive in the shooting and no one has been arrested.

The shooting was the latest in a stream of violence that has plagued Chicago this summer.

Four teenagers were hurt in a drive-by shooting outside an ice cream shop near Carl Schurz High School on the city’s Northwest Side on August 24.